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Homework Statement
Word for word, the book says "Find a power series that represents 1/(1+x^2) on (-1, 1)
Homework Equations
It's in the chapter that talks about power series, so I think they want me to use the fact that 1/(1-x) is a power series with a=1 and r=x, but if I just substitute in -x^2 for x, that makes chain rule issues. The chapter also talks about term-by-term integration, which confuses me more than little bit.
The Attempt at a Solution
Uhm... I don't really have much yet. I think this is probably an extremely basic question and I'm just missing some underlying technique or trick to solve it.
I know that the antiderivative of 1/(1+x^2) is arctan(x) of but we don't know the series for arctan(x), so that doesn't really help. The derivative of 1/(1+x^2) is -2x/(1+x^2)^2, which doesn't seem to help either.
Thanks for any help :)
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