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Brook Taylor FRS (18 August – 30 November ) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.

Life and work

Brook Taylor was born in Edmonton (at that time in Middlesex) to John Taylor of Bifrons House, Kent, and Olivia Tempest, daughter of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bart., of Durham.

Brook entered St John's College, Cambridge as a fellow-commoner in , and took degrees of LL.B. and LL.D.

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in and , respectively.[1] Having studied mathematics under John Machin and John Keill, in he obtained a remarkable solution of the problem of the "centre of oscillation," which, however, remaining unpublished until May (Phil.

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x1), his claim to priority was unjustly disputed by Johann Bernoulli. Taylor's Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa () added a new branch to the higher mathematics, now designated the "calculus of finite differences." This work is available in translation on the web [1].

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