Project Gutenberg on Nostr: English mathematician and barrister Brook Taylor died #OTD in 1731. Taylor's most ...
English mathematician and barrister Brook Taylor died #OTD in 1731.
Taylor's most famous developments are Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, essential in the infinitesimal approach of functions in specific points. Taylor's Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa (1715) added a new branch to higher mathematics, called "calculus of finite differences". via npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73 (npub1kvn…hm73)
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Taylor's most famous developments are Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, essential in the infinitesimal approach of functions in specific points. Taylor's Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa (1715) added a new branch to higher mathematics, called "calculus of finite differences". via npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73 (npub1kvn…hm73)
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