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December 29, 1731. Brook Taylor died.—Educated at Cambridge and a man of means, Taylor was devoted to the arts and sciences, served as secretary to the Royal Society, and in 1715 published his “Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa,” a treatise dealing with the calculus of finite differences and containing the important theorem which bears his name.
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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 108, 589 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108589a0
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