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Brook Taylor
1685Aug, 18

Brook Taylor

Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731)
Brook Taylor (18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731) was an English mathematician best known for creating Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, which are important for their use in mathematical analysis.

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