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Maclaurin, Colin (1698–1746) Scottish mathematician who was the outstanding British mathematician of the generation following Newton's. He developed and extended the subject of calculus. His textbook on the subject contains important original results, but the Maclaurin series, which appears in it, is just a special case of the Taylor series known considerably earlier. He also obtained notable results in geometry and wrote a popular textbook on algebra.
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