Theorem 21

When [Maple Math] is continuous and satisfies a Lipschitz Condition in the variable [Maple Math] on the domain

[Maple Math] .

Assume a constant [Maple Math] exists such that

[Maple Math] for all [Maple Math] in [Maple Math] ,

and let [Maple Math] be the unique solution to the initial value problem

[Maple Math] ,

and call [Maple Math] the successive approximations generated by Euler's method for some positive integer [Maple Math] .

Then for each [Maple Math] , we have

[Maple Math]

Proof

The major problem with a practical application of this theorem is that one does not normally knows the second derivative of [Maple Math] in advance. Sometimes, one can find it as

[Maple Math] .

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