Welcome, to week 3 of Sequences and Series.
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In the first week of this course, in week 1, we met sequences.
And last week, in week 2, we met series.
Now, considering that the name of this course is sequences and series.
Does that mean we're done with this course,
that we've covered everything we meant to cover?
Not at all, we're just getting started.
Now that we know about sequences and series, it's time
to really dig in, and do something with these things.
In particular,
we're going to focus on convergence tests.
Given a series, does a converge or diverge?
We've seen a little bit of this already, we've
learned about the nth term test that tells us to
look at the limit of the nth term of a
series and if that limits not 0, the series diverges.
We've learned about geometric series, we learned about comparison
tests, but there's way more convergence tests to cover.
This week, we're going to be looking at these fancier convergence tests.
We're going to be focusing
on the ratio test, the root
test and the integral test.
It'll be a lot of fun.
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