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    Equilibrium to Maclaurin spheroids. Maclaurin corresponded extensively with Clairaut, Maupertuis, and d'Ortous de Mairan. Independently from Euler and using...
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    singularities, first to lattice point counting in polytopes, then to Euler-Maclaurin type summation formulae, and most recently to counting lattice points...
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    for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Leonhard Euler in the pupil's youth. Johann was born in Basel, the son of Nicolaus Bernoulli...
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  • Louis Lagrange, even though it was actually invented by Euler and just popularized by the former. In Lagrange's notation, a prime mark denotes a derivative...
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    like Archimedes, Johann Bernoulli and his son Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Claude-Louis Navier and Stokes, who developed the fundamental equations...
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  • extent an active area of research today. Several mathematicians, including Maclaurin, tried to prove the soundness of using infinitesimals, but it would not...
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    founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, found the Maclaurin series for arctangent, and then two infinite series for π. One of them...
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    New Zealand from 2006 to 2008. In 2011 he was selected as the inaugural Maclaurin Lecturer, as part of a reciprocal exchange between the New Zealand Mathematical...
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    W. Parker, West Strand; Cambridge, John Deighton (1850, Google Books) Maclaurin, C. (1748). An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries...
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    ellipsoid at every point in space. In contrast to previous research of Maclaurin, Laplace and Lagrange, Gauss's new solution treated the attraction more...
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