ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Colin Maclaurin

Alternatively rendered M'Laurine.

Held the record for almost 300 years as the youngest professor in history.

Worked extensively on elliptic functions.

Best known nowadays for Maclaurin Series.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: February, 1698
• Died: June 14, 1746

Theorems

• Euler-Maclaurin Summation Formula
• Maclaurin Series (which are Taylor Series expanded around zero)
• Trisectrix of Maclaurin
• Maclaurin-Cauchy Test (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)

Books and Papers

• 1720: Geometria Organica
• 1720: De Linearum Geometricarum Proprietatibus - 1720
• 1742: Treatise on Fluxions (two volumes) The first systematic exposition of Newton's methods.

Published posthumously

• 1748: Treatise on Algebra
• 1748 or 1750: Account of Newton's Discoveries

Also See

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Colin Maclaurin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive