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Maclaurin

American  
[muhk-lawr-in, muh-klawr-] / məkˈlɔr ɪn, məˈklɔr- /

noun

  1. Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.


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Figure 6.8 The function y = cos x and the Maclaurin polynomials p0, p2 and p4 are plotted on this graph.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

We now provide a formal definition of Taylor and Maclaurin polynomials for a function f .

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For each of the following functions, find formulas for the Maclaurin polynomials p0, p1, p2 and p3.

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The function and the first three Maclaurin polynomials are shown in Figure 6.6.

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Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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