Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3830. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Kilmodan, Argyllshire, Scotland, became professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and worked on the theory of tides, the impact of bodies, and in 1742 published his Treatise of Fluxions, the first systematic exposition of NEWTON's methods. Its influence was negative in that it prolonged the currency of Newton's geometric approach to calculus rather than the algebraic anal...

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