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Colin Maclaurin

1698 - 1746

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Colin Maclaurin, (; Scottish Gaelic: Cailean MacLabhruinn; February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. 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), his surname is alternatively written MacLaurin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Colin Maclaurin is the 154th most popular mathematician (down from 130th in 2019), the 826th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 652nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Mathematician.

Colin Maclaurin is most famous for his Maclaurin series, which is a series of infinite series that is used to approximate the values of trigonometric functions.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Colin Maclaurin ranks 154 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph Liouville, John Tate, Georg von Peuerbach, Vincenzo Viviani, Marian Rejewski, and Andrey Markov. After him are Michel Rolle, Oliver Heaviside, Aloysius Lilius, Autolycus of Pitane, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Peter Lax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Colin Maclaurin ranks 4. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Pietro Metastasio, and Giuseppe Guarneri. After him are Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Riccardo Broschi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Johann Jakob Bodmer, and Erik Pontoppidan. Among people deceased in 1746, Colin Maclaurin ranks 4. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Christian VI of Denmark, and Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain. After him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Francis Hutcheson, Nicolas de Largillière, Anna Leopoldovna, Domenico Alberti, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Maclaurin ranks 826 out of 8,785. Before him are Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), James May (1963), Fatboy Slim (1963), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), and Hertha Ayrton (1854). After him are Asma al-Assad (1975), Alice Liddell (1852), Nicko McBrain (1952), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Louis Wain (1860), and Ian McEwan (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Colin Maclaurin ranks 17. Before him are George Green (1793), William Oughtred (1574), Isaac Barrow (1631), G. H. Hardy (1877), Brook Taylor (1685), and Annie S. D. Maunder (1868). After him are Oliver Heaviside (1850), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), John Pell (1611), G. I. Taylor (1886), James Gregory (1638), and Lewis Fry Richardson (1881).

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