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Colin Maclaurin

1698 - 1746

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Colin Maclaurin (; Scottish Gaelic: Cailean MacLabhruinn; February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. He is also known for being a child prodigy and holding the record for being the youngest professor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colin Maclaurin has received more than 395,615 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Colin Maclaurin is the 130th most popular mathematician (up from 168th in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 839th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Mathematician.

Colin Maclaurin is most famous for his Maclaurin series, which is a series of infinite series that is used to approximate the values of trigonometric functions.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Colin Maclaurin ranks 130 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann Weyl, Herbert A. Hauptman, Marian Rejewski, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Liu Hui, and Étienne Bézout. After him are Hermann of Reichenau, Lodovico Ferrari, Jacques Hadamard, Aloysius Lilius, Sophus Lie, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Colin Maclaurin ranks 4. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Pietro Metastasio, and Giuseppe Guarneri. After him are Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Riccardo Broschi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jean Calas, and Erik Pontoppidan. Among people deceased in 1746, Colin Maclaurin ranks 4. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Christian VI of Denmark, and Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain. After him are Francis Hutcheson, Anna Leopoldovna, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Nicolas de Largillière, Domenico Alberti, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Maclaurin ranks 652 out of 8,785. Before him are George Martin (1926), John Kendrew (1917), Bobby Robson (1933), John Flamsteed (1646), Kevin Keegan (1951), and Brian Eno (1948). After him are Richard Arkwright (1732), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Wilkie Collins (1824), Ian Paice (1948), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), and Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Colin Maclaurin ranks 13. Before him are Isaac Barrow (1631), Joan Clarke (1917), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), and John Couch Adams (1819). After him are Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Oughtred (1574), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Arthur Cayley (1821), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), and James Gregory (1638).

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