Mathematician:Brook Taylor

English mathematician noted for Taylor's Theorem, but he was not the only one to have been exploring it.

Also made progress in the mathematics of perspective and the foundations of projective geometry.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 18 Aug 1685, Edmonton, Middlesex, England
 * Died: 29 Dec 1731, Somerset House, London, England

Theorems

 * Taylor's Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1715: Methodus incrementorum directa et inversa
 * 1715: Linear Perspective