Mclauren is the son of a priest. He lost his father at the age of half and his mother at the age of nine. Raised by his uncle. My uncle is also a priest. Maclaurin is a child prodigy. In order to become a priest, he was admitted to the University of Glasgow to study theology at the age of 1 1, but he became interested in mathematics soon after entering the school and turned to mathematics a year later.
17 years old, got a master's degree and made a wonderful public defense for his paper on gravity work; 19 years old, professor of mathematics at Aberdeen University, presided over the first mathematics book of Marischer College. Two years later, he was elected a member of the Royal Society.
17 19, maclaurin met Newton when he visited London, and he became Newton's favorite pupil from then on. 1724, due to Newton's strong recommendation, he continued to obtain the professorship. At the age of 2 1, maclaurin published his first important book, Structural Geometry, in which he described some new ingenious methods of making conic curves and brilliantly discussed the properties of conic curves and higher plane curves.
1742, based on Taylor series, is the first book to systematically expound Newton's flow method. This book aims to provide a geometric framework for Newton's flow number method, so as to answer the attack of Archbishop Berkeley and others on Newton's calculus principle. He demonstrated the theory of flow mathematics with skillful geometric methods and exhaustive methods, and also took series as the method of finding integral. Independent of Cauchy, the integral discrimination method of infinite series convergence is given in geometric form. He obtained the famous expansion of Ma Kraulin series in mathematical analysis and proved it by the method of undetermined coefficient.
His main contribution to algebra is that in algebraic theory (1748, the last work), he created a determinant method for solving simultaneous linear equations with multiple unknowns. But the narrative method in the book is not very good. Later, another mathematician Clem rediscovered this law, so it is now called Clem's Law.
Maclaurin is also an experimental scientist. He has designed many ingenious mechanical devices. He not only made great academic achievements, but also participated in the defense of 1745 Edinburgh.
McLaughlin never forgot Newton's cultivation in his life, and struggled to inherit, defend and develop Newton's theory. He had planned to write a book about Isaac? Sir Newton's discovery instructed him, but he died before it was completed. After his death, the tombstone was engraved with "Zeng Mengniu recommended" to express his gratitude to Newton.