Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746): a Newtonian between theory and practice

DOI10.1080/26375451.2019.1701859zbMath1447.01008OpenAlexW2996055059MaRDI QIDQ5217288

Olivier Bruneau

Publication date: 24 February 2020

Published in: British Journal for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2019.1701859

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50)

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• MacLaurin's physical dissertations
• The controversy between Colin MacLaurin and George Campbell over complex roots, 1728-1729
• L’espace et le temps chez Maclaurin : le cas de la figure de la Terre
• Newton, Maclaurin, and the Authority of Mathematics
• Note on the Braikenridge-Maclaurin theorem
• Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions
• A mathematician among the molasses barrels: Maclaurin's unpublished memoir on volumes Introduction: Maclaurin's memoir and its place in eighteenth-century Scotland

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