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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- February 1698
- Died
- 14 June 1746
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Colin
- Family name
- Maclaurin
- Child
- John MacLaurin
- Sibling
- John MacLaurin
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, astronomer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- academic thesis
- De gravitate, aliisque viribus naturalibus
- cause of death
- edema
- described by source
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- doctoral advisor
- Robert Simson
- doctoral student
- James Hutton
- educated at
- University of Glasgow, Dumbarton Academy
- employer
- Marischal College, University of Edinburgh
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Colin Maclaurin, Cailean MacLabhruinn
- notable work
- integral test for convergence, MacLaurin series, Euler–Maclaurin formula, Maclaurin's inequality, Maclaurin spheroid, Braikenridge–Maclaurin theorem, trisectrix of Maclaurin, sectrix of Maclaurin
- place of burial
- Greyfriars Kirkyard
- residence
- Scotland
- student
- James Hutton
- topic's main category
- Category:Colin Maclaurin
- writing language
- English
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