Brook Taylor was an English mathematician best known for creating Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, which are important for their use in mathematical analysis.
14 Facts About Brook Taylor
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Brook Taylor entered St John's College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner in 1701, and took degrees in LL.
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Brook Taylor used this development to determine the form of movement in vibrating strings.
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Brook Taylor was elected as a fellow in the Royal Society in 1712.
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From 1715 onward, Brook Taylor's studies took a philosophical and religious bent.
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Brook Taylor corresponded with the Comte de Montmort on the subject of Nicolas Malebranche's tenets.
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Brook Taylor was one of few English mathematicians, along with Isaac Newton and Roger Cotes, who was capable of holding his own with the Bernoullis, but a lack of clarity affected a great part of his demonstrations and Brook Taylor lost brevity through his failure to express his ideas fully and clearly.
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Brook Taylor's health began to fail in 1717 after years of intense work.
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Brook Taylor married Miss Brydges of Wallington, Surrey in 1721 without his father's approval.
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The marriage led to an estrangement with his father, which improved in 1723 after Brook Taylor's wife died in childbirth while giving birth to a son.
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Brook Taylor spent the next two years with his family at Bifrons, and in 1725 he married with his father's approval, Sabetta Sawbridge of Olantigh, Kent.
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Brook Taylor died in childbirth in 1730, though his only daughter, Elizabeth, survived.
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Brook Taylor's father died in 1729, leaving Brook Taylor to inherit the Bifrons estate.
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In 1719, Brook Taylor issued an improved version of his work on perspective, New Principles of Linear Perspective, which was revised by John Colson in 1749.