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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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