Mathematician:Colin Maclaurin

Mathematician
Held the record for almost 300 years as the youngest professor in history.

Worked extensively on elliptic functions.

Best known nowadays for Maclaurin Series.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: February, 1698
 * Died: June 14, 1746

Theorems

 * Euler-Maclaurin Summation Formula
 * Maclaurin Series (which are Taylor Series expanded around zero)
 * Trisectrix of Maclaurin
 * Maclaurin-Cauchy Test (with )

Publications

 * 1720: Geometria Organica
 * 1720: De Linearum Geometricarum Proprietatibus
 * 1742: Treatise on Fluxions (two volumes) The first systematic exposition of Newton's methods.

Posthumous

 * 1748: Treatise on Algebra
 * 1748 or 1750: Account of Newton's Discoveries

Also known as
His surname can also be seen rendered as M'Laurine.