Maclaurin or MacLaurin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Colin Maclaurin
Colin Maclaurin (; gd, Cailean MacLabhruinn; February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. He is also known for being a child prodigy and holding the record for bei ...
(1698–1746), Scottish mathematician
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Normand MacLaurin (1835–1914), Australian politician and university administrator
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Henry Normand MacLaurin (1878–1915), Australian general
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Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth
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Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1870–1920), US physicist and educator
See also
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Taylor series
In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor ser ...
in mathematics, a special case of which is the ''Maclaurin series''
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Maclaurin (crater), a crater on the Moon
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McLaurin (disambiguation)
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MacLaren (surname)
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McLaren (disambiguation)
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Clan MacLaren