biography
pronunciation:
[muhklorin]
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| (1698–1746)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Kilmodan, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow, became professor at Aberdeen (1717), and in 1725 was appointed to the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh. His best-known work, Treatise on Fluxions (1742) gave a systematic account of Newton's approach to the calculus, taking a geometric point of view rather than the analytical one used in mainland Europe. |
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