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Taylor series is accessible to all students and it is a useful mathematical tool to nonlinear equations. This paper shows it is extremely simple to solve approximately the well-known Lane–Emden equation.
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He, JH., Ji, FY. Taylor series solution for Lane–Emden equation. J Math Chem 57, 1932–1934 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-019-01048-7
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