Some illustrations of Taylor polynomials in the plane and in space.
1. Page 437 Top of page for definition
2. Example 3 is illustrated by this web site
http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/java/taylor.html (google: taylor polynomial)
3. Another animation with a scroll bar
http://www.calculus.org/Heath/taylor_series.mov
4. P. 684 Taylor Polynomials for surfaces at z = f(0,0)
5. Animation:
http://www-pors.hit.no/~haraldp/atcm99/paper4.html