If you think the most original British mathematician was Brook Taylor or Colin Maclaurin. Think again.
The most original British mathematician was John Wallis.
Taylor series has inspiration from John Wallis hypergeometric functions.
So Taylor borrowed from Wallis. Maclaurin from Taylor. And Newton from Maclaurin.
My point of Newton borrowing zero concept from Maclaurin is correct because Colin Maclaurin was a child prodigy and Newton was a weak child. However Newton received inspiration when apple fell on his head is correct and he is great in gravity.
I am of John Wallis.
It was Newton who made calculus prior to Maclaurin making his Maclaurin series. So Newton was possibly an inspiration for Maclaurin and not Maclaurin an inspiration for Newton. As I wrote in earlier paragraphs.
In Maclaurin and Newton methods, 1, x, x squared, x cubed etc. are used.
ReplyDeletex from 0 of a ruler. The x of x squared also from 0 of a ruler. The x of x cubed also from 0 of a ruler.
The 0 is always there.
It is a sort of journey from 0 always in every term of the series. That was Maclaurin.
Newton took x to be between 0 and 1 and ignored the squared and cubed terms and more.That was Newton.
It might be that John Wallis invented this to and fro from 0 journeys in his infinity.
It just might be that John Wallis is the king of this concept.
Taylor, Newton and Maclaurin all copied Wallis idea of recursion from 0 thing.
ReplyDeleteWallis must be therefore close to His Majesty King Charles's heart.
I am a small man but I don't jump from one hilltop to another hilltop the way Gauss did. His refusal to the paper of Abel on Quintic equations is insult to mankind.
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