You want to learn about Maclaurin and Taylor series but are a little rough on your sequences and series. This tutorial will get you brushed up on the concepts, vocabulary and ideas behind sequences and series.

In this tutorial, we will learn to approximate differentiable functions with polynomials. Beyond just being super cool, this can be useful for approximating functions so that they are easier to calculate, differentiate or integrate. So whether you will have to write simulations or become a bond trader (bond traders use polynomial approximation to estimate changes in bond prices given interest rate changes and vice versa), this tutorial could be fun. If that isn't motivation enough, we also come up with one of the most epic and powerful conclusions in all of mathematics in this tutorial: Euler's identity.

Everything in this tutorial is covered (with better resolution and handwriting) in the "other" Maclaurin and Taylor series tutorial, but this one has a bit of old-school charm so we are keeping it here for historical reasons.