Colin maclaurin mathematician biography videos
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Turnbull lectures on Colin Maclaurin
To celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Colin Maclaurin, Herbert Westren Turnbull, Regius Professor of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews, gave a lecture in Aberdeen on 4 February 1947.
Below is the first part of his lecture on Maclaurin's life.
Colin maclaurin mathematician biography videos
For Turnbull's description and assessment of Maclaurin's mathematics see: Turnbull on Maclaurin, Part 2
For Maclaurin's publications see: Maclaurin's publications
COLIN MACLAURIN, 1698-1746
Mathematician and Philosopher
COLIN MACLAURIN [his name is Cailean MacLabhruinn, that is, Colin the son of Laurence, in the Gaelic] was born at Kilmodan, Argyll, in the month of February, 1698.
His grandfather, Daniel Maclaurin, who held ancestral estates on the island of Tyree, a western. outpost of the county, had moved to Inverary where he helped to restore the town after the civil wars. His son, John, who inherited his literary ability, became minister of the parish of Kilmodan in G