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This book presents important works by the Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), translated in English for the first time. It includes three of the mathematician's less known and often hard to obtain works. A general introduction puts the works in context and gives an outline of MacLaurin's career. Each translation is also accompanied by an introduction and analyzed both in modern terms and from a historical point of view.

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<p>From the reviews: <p><p> Anyone seriously interested in Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) or in eighteenth-century mathematical physics will welcome this book. the assiduous reader will be rewarded in many ways, both by working through Tweddle s introductions, notes, and appendices, and by reading Maclaurin s own words in Tweddle s clear and accurate translations. I find the book refreshing we have the result of years of profound study and deliberation, careful textual analysis, and sound understanding and explanation of the relevant mathematics and physics. (Judith V. Grabiner, MathDL, January, 2007)

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