21. Maclaurin Biography of colin maclaurin (16981746) colin maclaurin was born in Kilmodanwhere his father, John maclaurin, was the minister of the parish. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Maclaurin.html

Colin Maclaurin Born: Feb 1698 in Kilmodan (12 km N of Tighnabruaich), Cowal, Argyllshire, Scotland Died: 14 June 1746 in Edinburgh, Scotland Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Colin Maclaurin was born in Kilmodan where his father, John Maclaurin, was the minister of the parish. The village (population 387 in 1904) is on the river Ruel and the church is at Glendaruel. You can see a picture of Kilmodan Church John Maclaurin was more of a scholar than one would expect of a parish minister, for he had translated the Psalms into Gaelic. Colin, however, never knew his father, for he died when Colin was six weeks old. Colin was the youngest of three sons, the oldest being John, while the second was Daniel who died at a young age. Colin Maclaurin's mother inherited a small estate in Argyllshire and it was on the estate that Colin spent the early years of his life. His mother wanted a good education for Colin and his brother John, so the family moved to Dumbarton where the boys attended school. In 1707, when Colin was nine years old, his mother died so the task of bringing up Colin and his brother John fell to their uncle Daniel Maclaurin who was the minister at Kilfinnan on Loch Fyne. Colin became a student at the University of Glasgow in 1709 at the age of eleven years. This may seem an unbelievable age for someone to begin their university education, but it was not so amazing at this time as it would be today. Basically Scottish schools and universities competed for the best pupils at that time, rather than a university education being seen as following a school education as is the norm today.

22. Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biogra Scottish mathematician who became a disciple of Newton, published A Treatise of Fluxions, developed method for expanding functions about the origin in terms of series now known as maclaurin Series. http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Maclaurin.html

Branch of Science Mathematicians Nationality Scottish Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) Scottish mathematician who became a disciple of Newton . He published the first systematic formulation of Newton's methods in A Treatise of Fluxions (1742). In this work, he developed a method for expanding functions about the origin in terms of series now known as Maclaurin series This method was generalized to expansion about an arbitrary point by Brook Taylor . Maclaurin also invented several devices, made astronomical observations, and improved maps of the Scottish isles. Maclaurin knew Cramer's rule probably as early as 1729. Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews)

23. References For Maclaurin References for the biography of colin maclaurin. EL Sageny, colin maclaurinand the Foundations of the Method of Fluxions (PhD Thesis, Princeton, 1989). http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Maclaurin.html

References for Colin Maclaurin Version for printing Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: S Mills (ed.), The collected letters of Colin Maclaurin (Nantwich, 1982). E L Sageny, Colin Maclaurin and the Foundations of the Method of Fluxions (PhD Thesis, Princeton, 1989). H W Turnbull, Bi-centenary of the death of Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), mathematician and philosopher, professor of mathematics in Marischal College, Aberdeen (1717-1725) (Aberdeen, 1951). Articles: Colin Maclaurin, The Scottish Nation III (Edinburgh, 1869), 37-38. Colin Maclaurin, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen III (Glasgow, 1872), 64-69. Colin Maclaurin, Dictionary of National Biography XXXV (London, 1893), 196-198. G Giorello, The 'fine structure' of mathematical revolutions : metaphysics, legitimacy, and rigour, The case of the calculus from Newton to Berkeley and Maclaurin, in Revolutions in mathematics (New York, 1992), 134-168. J V Grabiner, Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions

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Branch of Science Mathematicians Nationality Scottish Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) Scottish mathematician who became a disciple of Newton . He published the first systematic formulation of Newton's methods in A Treatise of Fluxions (1742). In this work, he developed a method for expanding functions about the origin in terms of series now known as Maclaurin series This method was generalized to expansion about an arbitrary point by Brook Taylor . Maclaurin also invented several devices, made astronomical observations, and improved maps of the Scottish isles. Maclaurin knew Cramer's rule probably as early as 1729. Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews)

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COLIN MACLAURIN MACLAURIN, COLIN when the fixed points all lie on a right line. In 1722 Maclaurin travelled as tutor and companion to the eldest son of Lord Polwarth, and after a short stay in Paris resided for some timc in Lorraine, where he wrote an essay on the percussion of bodies which obtained the prize of the French Academy of Sciences for the year I 724. The following year he was elected professoi of mathematics in the university of Edinburgh on the urgent recommendation of Newton. After the death of Newton, ir 1728, his nephew, John Conduitt, applied to Maclaurin for hi~ assistance in publishing an. account of Newtons life and discoveries. This Maclaurin gladly undertook, but the death oi Conduitt put a stop to the project. After Maclaurins death his account of Newtons philosophical discoveries was published by Patrick Murdoch, and also his algebra in 1748. As an appendix to the latter appeared his De linearum geometricarum~proprieta1ibus general-ibus tractatus, a treatise of remarkable elegance. Of the more immediate successors of Newton in Great Britain Maclaurin is probably the only one who can be placed in competition with the great mathematicians of the continent of Europe at the time. (B. W.) Besides the works already cited, MLennan wrote a Life of Thomas Drummond (1867). The vast materials which he had accumulated on kinship were edited by his widow and A. Platt, under the title Studies in Ancient history: Second Series (i 896).

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Maclaurin, Colin Scottish mathematician who played a leading part in establishing the hegemony of Isaac Newton's calculus in the UK. Maclaurin was the first to present the correct theory for distinguishing between the maximum and minimum values of a function. Maclaurin was born in Argyllshire and studied at Glasgow. At the age of 19, he was appointed professor at the Marischal College of Aberdeen. On a visit to London in 1719 he first met Isaac Newton. Maclaurin left Aberdeen 1722 to become travelling tutor to the son of an English diplomat, returning to Scotland 1724 to become professor at Edinburgh. He won the admiration of Edinburgh society for his public lectures and demonstrations in experimental physics and astronomy. In 1745, during the Jacobite rebellion, he organized the defence of Edinburgh. Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions 1742 was an attempt to prove Newton's doctrine of prime and ultimate ratios and to provide a geometrical framework to support Newton's fluxional calculus. So influential was the treatise that it contributed to the ascendancy of Newtonian mathematics which cut off Britain from developments in the rest of the world.

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Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Colin Maclaurin , who was born in Kilmodan in Argyllshire in February 1698, and died at York on June 14; 1746, was educated at the university of Glasgow; in 1717 he was elected, at the early age of nineteen, professor of mathematics at Aberdeen; and in 1725 he was appointed the deputy of the mathematical professor at Edinburgh, and ultimately succeeded him. There was some difficulty in securing a stipend for a deputy, and Newton privately wrote offering to bear the cost so as to enable the university to secure the services of Maclaurin. Maclaurin took an active part in opposing the advance of the Young Pretender in 1745; on the approach of the Highlanders he fled to York, but the exposure in the trenches at Edinburgh and the privations he endured in his escape proved fatal to him. His chief works are his Geometria Organica , London, 1720; his De Linearum Geometricarum Proprietatibus , London, 1720; his

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