Drawing by David Steuart Erskine c. 1795, from a portrait by James Ferguson
Born
February 1698
Kilmodan, Cowal, Argyll, Scotland
Died
14 June 1746 (aged 48)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality
Scottish
Citizenship
Great Britain
Alma mater
University of Glasgow
Known for
Euler–Maclaurin formula Maclaurin's inequality Maclaurin series Maclaurin spheroid Maclaurin–Cauchy test Braikenridge–Maclaurin theorem Trisectrix of Maclaurin
Awards
Grand Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematician
Institutions
Marischal College, University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh
Academic advisors
Robert Simson
Notable students
Robert Adam
Colin Maclaurin (/məˈklɔːrən/; Scottish Gaelic: Cailean MacLabhruinn;[pronunciation?] February 1698 – 14 June 1746)[1] was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra.[2] He is also known for being a child prodigy and holding the record for being the youngest professor. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, is named after him.
Owing to changes in orthography since that time (his name was originally rendered as M'Laurine[3]), his surname is alternatively written MacLaurin.[4]
^http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Turnbull_Maclaurin_1.html Turnbull lectures on Colin Maclaurin (4 February 1947), Part I
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Maclaurin, Colin" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^"Colin Maclaurin: A Biographical Note" by Robin Schlapp (6 December 1946). (Note that the quotation in [1] has been altered.)
^"The prickly genius – Colin MacLaurin (1698–1746)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
ColinMaclaurin (/məˈklɔːrən/; Scottish Gaelic: Cailean MacLabhruinn;[pronunciation?] February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made...
Taylor series is also called a Maclaurin series when 0 is the point where the derivatives are considered, after ColinMaclaurin, who made extensive use of...
convergence. It was developed by ColinMaclaurin and Augustin-Louis Cauchy and is sometimes known as the Maclaurin–Cauchy test. Consider an integer N...
Maclaurin or MacLaurin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ColinMaclaurin (1698–1746), Scottish mathematician Normand MacLaurin (1835–1914)...
mathematician ColinMaclaurin, who formulated it for the shape of Earth in 1742. In fact the figure of the Earth is far less oblate than Maclaurin's formula...
Propositions XIX and XX. Original Latin. ColinMaclaurin (1742). A Treatise on Fluxions (PDF). p. 125. Maclaurin does not use modern notation but rather...
generalization of this construction is called a sectrix of Maclaurin. The curve is named after ColinMaclaurin who investigated the curve in 1742. Let two lines...
Isaac Newton Method of Fluxions Infinitesimal calculus Brook Taylor ColinMaclaurin Leonhard Euler Gauss Joseph Fourier Law of continuity History of calculus...
of the element nitrogen Daniel Rutherford; ColinMaclaurin, mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved...
linear. The name is derived from the trisectrix of Maclaurin (named for ColinMaclaurin), which is a prominent member of the family, and their sectrix property...
University from 1907 to 1908. Maclaurin was born in Scotland, and was related to the noted Scottish mathematician ColinMaclaurin. He emigrated to New Zealand...
the Scottish mathematicians James Gregory in the 17th century and ColinMaclaurin in the 18th century were influential in the development of trigonometric...
theory of the tides, to which, conjointly with the memoirs by Euler and ColinMaclaurin, a prize was awarded by the French Academy: these three memoirs contain...
Euler–Maclaurin summation formula. Mills, Stella (1985). "The independent derivations by Leonhard Euler and ColinMaclaurin of the Euler–Maclaurin summation...
des Lignes Courbes and reference therein. Maclaurin series. The Maclaurin series was named after ColinMaclaurin, a professor in Edinburgh, who published...
of the Earth was founded on a paper by the Scottish mathematician ColinMaclaurin, which had shown that a mass of homogeneous fluid set in rotation about...
to see science through the eyes of utility, improvement and reform. ColinMaclaurin (1698–1746) was appointed as chair of mathematics by the age of 19...
judges Lord Reed and Lord Hodge, mathematicians Sir W. V. D. Hodge, ColinMaclaurin and Sir E. T. Whittaker, philosophers Benjamin Constant, Adam Ferguson...
1) Lemniscate of Bernoulli (n = 2) The curves were first studied by ColinMaclaurin. Differentiating r n = a n cos ( n θ ) {\displaystyle r^{n}=a^{n}\cos(n\theta...
it has no realization in the Euclidean plane. It was introduced by ColinMaclaurin and studied by Hesse (1844), and is also known as Young's geometry...
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