Chapter 16

 

1 Taylor, Brook (1685–1731), English analyst, geometer and philosopher. He has published books on perspective and calculus of finite differences.

2 Maclaurin, Colin (1698–1746), Scottish mathematician and physicist.

3 Laurent, Paul Matthieu Hermann (1841–1908), French analyst. He is best known for the Laurent series that generalises the Taylor's series.

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