Mathematician:Colin Maclaurin

Mathematician

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)

Results named for Colin Maclaurin can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Colin Maclaurin can be found here.

Publications

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

Posthumous

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

Also known as

His surname can also be seen rendered as M'Laurine.

Sources

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

• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Maclaurin, Colin (1698 -- 1746)
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)