Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Colin Maclaurin
Born: February 1, 1698
Died: June 14, 1746 (aged 48)
Bio: Colin Maclaurin was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, is named after him.
Known for:
- A Treatise of Fluxions: In Two Books (1742)
- MacLaurin's Physical Dissertations
- A treatise of algebra