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Brooke taylor mathematician biography


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    Brooke taylor mathematician biography

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    • Brook Taylor

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    Born
    18 August 1685
    Edmonton, Middlesex, England
    Died
    29 December 1731
    Somerset House, London, England
    Summary
    Brook Taylor was an English mathematician who added to mathematics a new branch now called the 'calculus of finite differences', invented integration by parts, and discovered the celebrated formula known as Taylor's expansion.

    Biography

    Brook Taylor's father was John Taylor and his mother was Olivia Tempest.

    John Taylor was the son of Natheniel Taylor who was recorder of Colchester and a member representing Bedfordshire in Oliver Cromwell's Assembly, while Olivia Tempest was the daughter of Sir John Tempest. Brook was, therefore, born into a family which was on the fringes of the nobility and certainly they were fairly wealthy.



    Taylor was brought up in a household where his father ruled as a strict disciplinarian, yet he was a man of culture with interests in painting and music. Although John Taylor had some negative infl