Brooke taylor mathematician biography index

Brook Taylor

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Born

18 August 1685
Edmonton, Middlesex, England

Died

29 December 1731
Somerset House, London, England

Summary

Brook Taylor was an English mathematician who added to mathematics a new branch now called the 'calculus of finite differences', invented integration by parts, and discovered the celebrated formula known as Taylor's expansion.

Biography

Brook Taylor's father was John Taylor and his mother was Olivia Tempest.

Brook Taylor - Scientific Lib

John Taylor was the son of Natheniel Taylor who was recorder of Colchester and a member representing Bedfordshire in Oliver Cromwell's Assembly, while Olivia Tempest was the daughter of Sir John Tempest. Brook was, therefore, born into a family which was on the fringes of the nobility and certainly they were fairly wealthy.

Taylor was brought up in a household where his father ruled as a strict disciplinarian, yet he was a man of culture with interests in painting and music.

Although John Taylor had some negative infl Brook Taylor - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics ... HUCEH