Colin Maclaurin
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Colin Maclaurin 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 professo
Drawing by David Steuart Erskine c. 1795, from a portrait by James Ferguson
Illustration of critique of De fluxionibus libri duo published in Acta Eruditorum, 1747
Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746)
The grave of Colin Maclaurin, Greyfriars Kirkyard
Richard C. Maclaurin
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Richard Cockburn Maclaurin was a Scottish-born U.S. educator and mathematical physicist. He was made president of MIT in 1909, and held the position until his death in 1920.
Colin Maclaurin
…south-west corner of the church but is supplemented by a more wordy memorial on the outer wall of the church. The mathematician and former MIT President Richard Cockburn Maclaurin was from the same family. The Maclaurin Society (MacSoc), the Mathematics and Statistics Society at Glasgow University, is named in his honour…
Maclaurin in 1910