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This lecture introduces power series and generating functions, explaining how to construct generating series from combinatorial sequences, view power series as formal or convergent, and perform operations like addition, multiplication, differentiation, and integration. Examples include computing the generating function of a sequence and using the method to evaluate binomial coefficients. The lecture concludes with the generalized binomial theorem, providing a new tool for power series computations.