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Kowalski, R. Travis – PRIMUS, 2011
This article presents an extended analogy that connects infinite sequences and series to the science of genetics, by identifying power series as "DNA for a function." This analogy allows standard topics such as convergence tests or Taylor approximations to be recast in a "forensic" light as mathematical analogs of genetic concepts such as DNA…
Descriptors: Genetics, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics