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Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn

Higher Mathematics 1 · Reutlingen University

Lecture film · Higher Mathematics 1 · Financial Mathematics, Part 1

A Staircase, a Curve, an Old Machine: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

Lecture film · Higher Mathematics 1 · Financial Mathematics, Part 1

A Staircase, a Curve, an Old Machine: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn

Higher Mathematics 1 · Reutlingen University

Arithmetic means always plus the same, geometric always times the same. Output, depreciation and compound interest are almost always one of the two sequences.

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A Staircase, a Curve, an Old Machine: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

Prof. Dr. Dirk SchiebornHigher Mathematics 1 · Reutlingen University

NewNov 4, 2026 · 5 chapters

An explainer film in five chapters, made from a real lecture: two rows of bars that look like a financial plan but are pure mathematics, the arithmetic sequence as a staircase with equal steps, the geometric sequence with a constant factor, explicit versus recursive (how many sleeps left?) and a machine that loses value straight-line or declining-balance and, declining, never reaches zero. Pause anywhere and ask.

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