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Biography of Colin Maclaurin (BB^Y-1746) ... 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.
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Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) ... Colin Maclaurin was a Scottish mathematican who published the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods, written as a reply to Berkeley's attack on the calculus for its lack of rigorous foundations.
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Colin Maclaurin's parents died when he was young, so he and his brother were brought up by an uncle who was a minister. He became a student at the University of Glasgow in 1709 at the age of 11. This may seem young for someone to begin their university education, but it was not so unusual at this time.
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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;
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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.
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MACLAURIN, COLIN, an eminent mathematician and philosopher, was descended from an ancient and respectable family, which had long been in possession of the island of Tiree, a solitary but comparatively fertile member of the Hebridean range.
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Gazetteer for Scotland: Definitive description of Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746) ... In 1725, Maclaurin was appointed to a Chair of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, to assist the aged James Gregory - a nephew of the more famous James Gregory (1638-75). Maclaurin had been recommended by ... Professor Colin Maclaurin...
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