Mathematician:Brook Taylor

Mathematician

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 Polynomial
• Taylor Series

• Taylor's Theorem

Results named for Brook Taylor can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Brook Taylor can be found here.

Publications

• 1715: Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa
• 1715: Linear Perspective

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Brook Taylor": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)