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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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