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Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746) Maclaurin also made significant contributions to the gravitation attraction of ellipsoids, a subject that furthermore attracted the attention of d'Alembert, A.-C. Clairaut, Euler, Laplace, Legendre, Poisson and Gauss. Maclaurin showed that an oblate spheroid was a possible equilibrium in Newton's theory of gravity.
Patrick Murdoch (died 1774) was an author, publisher and mathematician, who published a biography of poet James Thomson, and also An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries by Colin MacLaurin.
Colin Maclaurin (1742-1746), discoverer of the MacLaurin series; Matthew Stewart (1746-1775), geometrician; Dugald Stewart (1775-1785), Chair of Moral Philosophy (1785-1828) Adam Ferguson (1785-1805, held jointly with Playfair), Chair of Moral Philosophy (1764-1785) John Playfair (1785-1805, held jointly with Ferguson), Chair of Natural ...
Maclaurin or MacLaurin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), Scottish mathematician; Normand MacLaurin (1835–1914), Australian politician and university administrator; Henry Normand MacLaurin (1878–1915), Australian general; Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth (b. 1937)
Colin Maclaurin and John Bernoulli, who were of this opinion, resolved the problem by more direct methods, the one in his Fluxions, published in 1742, and the other in his Hydraulica nunc primum detecta, et demonstrata directe ex fundamentis pure mechanicis, which forms the fourth volume of his works.
Colin Lawrence is a television and film actor currently known for his role as John “Preacher” Middleton in the series Virgin River. Although born in London, the 51-year-old was brought up in ...
Colin 'Smiley' Petersen, best known as the original dummer of Bee Gees, has died. He was 78. The Best of the Bee Gees Facebook page announced his death on Monday, Nov. 18. The page did not ...
Charlie Colin, bassist and founding member of the American pop-rock band Train, best known for their early-aughts hits like “Drops of Jupiter" and “Meet Virginia,” has died. Colin’s sister ...