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* Brook Taylor, natural philosopher and mathematician
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The concept of a Taylor series was formally introduced by the English mathematician Brook Taylor in 1715.
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Bernoulli also wrote a large number of papers on various mechanical questions, especially on problems connected with vibrating strings, and the solutions given by Brook Taylor and by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
Taylor's theorem is named after the mathematician Brook Taylor, who stated a version of it in 1712.
Several brooks also feed into this and the nearby Deerfield River, and there is a large settlement around Papoose Lake, which drains into the Taylor Brook and eventually the North River.
Brook Taylor FRS ( 18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731 ) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.
Brook Taylor was born in Edmonton ( at that time in Middlesex ) to John Taylor of Bifrons House, Kent, and Olivia Tempest, daughter of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bart., of Durham.
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Brook and natural
The lake is fed by springs, and has one natural outlet, known as Coventry Lake Brook.
This unusual dock has a tentacled plan resulting from its origins as the natural river course of the Avon and its tributaries, the River Frome and Siston Brook, and is intimately entwined with Bristol's city centre as few docks are.
On September 10, 2011, just one day after his 88th birthday, Robertson died of natural causes in Stony Brook, New York.
The flooding problems mainly affect the town of Bound Brook, which is partially built on a natural flood plain at the junction of several tributaries, and Manville, which has a large neighborhood known as Lost Valley that lies on the flood plain between the Raritan River and its largest tributary river, which is known as the Millstone River.
Contained within the park off France Brook Road is a large storage pool for natural gas.
A contour canal runs between Ellesmere Port and Chester following the course of a natural river valley that encompasses Backford Brook and the Bache valley.
They spent the summer of 1936 at Pine Brook Country Club, located on a natural lake in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut.
The River Quaggy ( often the Quaggy River or simply Quaggy ) is a river, 17 km in length, passing through the south-east London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham ; in its lower reaches it is an urban river, in its upper reaches further from London it is more natural and known as the Kyd Brook.
Brook trout can sometimes hybridize with other species, and both natural and artificial hybrids are known.
However, the steepness of the south-flowing Saco's gorge ( in contrast to the leisurely descent of the northward drainage into the watershed of Crawford Brook and eventually the Ammonoosuc River ) makes it natural to attach the name to the gorge.
Pillhill Brook runs from Thruxton Down through the grounds of the Manor House and along the village street to Mullen's Pond, a natural habitat for many species of migratory birds and wild plants.
The spa was surrounded by a natural park that had of bridle paths, " with measured walks at scientifically calculated gradients through its groves and vales, with spouting springs adding unexpected touches to its vistas, with the tumbling waters of Geyser Brook flowing beneath bridges of the fine roads.
The marshland of the River Ribble and the Savick Brook were natural obstacles preventing easy access north west of Preston.
The first summer conference of the Stony Brook Assembly began on July 3, 1909 and was an immediate success due to its natural beauty and close proximity to the New York metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 10 million people at the time.
Brook and philosopher
* Paloma Brook ( born 1967 ) Italian philosopher
James became interested in the late 1840s in former members of Brook Farm, the experiment in communal living at West Roxbury, Massachusetts that lasted from 1841 to 1847, and in Fourierism, the school of utopian socialism that grew out of the thought of French social philosopher Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ) and which was a major influence in the last several years of Brook Farm.
Becoming an associate of leading Objectivists such as philosopher Leonard Peikoff, Brook co-founded Lyceum International in 1994, a company that organized Objectivist conferences and offered distance-learning courses.
Brook and mathematician
* John Morgan ( mathematician ), mathematician at Stony Brook University
He served as an assistant to his father, among other areas, in the correspondence over the priority dispute between Isaac Newton and Leibniz, and also in the priority dispute between his father and the English mathematician Brook Taylor.
Taylor and natural
Dancers and choreographers such as Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Doris Humphrey, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor re-defined movement, struggling to bring it back to its ' natural ' roots and along with Jazz, created a solely American art form.
In 1983, Himalayan conservationist Daniel C. Taylor and Himalayan natural historian Robert L. Fleming Jr. led a yeti expedition into Nepal ’ s Barun Valley ( suggested by discovery in the Barun in 1972 of footprints alleged to be yeti by Cronin & McNeely ).
Taylor contends that " Radical environmentalism is best understood as a new religious movement that views environmental degradation as an assault on a sacred, natural world.
Adjacent to Clifton Gorge, John Bryan State Park and Glen Helen Nature Preserve, Camp High Taylor Birch is a part of of continuous natural woodlands.
Norfolk is home to three state parks: Dennis Hill State Park, which includes the remnants of a lavish summer pavilion designed by Alfredo Taylor ; Haystack Mountain State Park, with a stone tower at the mountain's summit ; and Campbell Falls State Park, with an approximately 100 foot natural waterfall.
This formula is a special case of the Mercator series, the Taylor series for the natural logarithm.
Taylor reports that " producer gas " has a lower heating value of 5. 7 MJ / kg versus 55. 9 MJ / kg for natural gas and 44. 1 MJ / kg for gasoline.
Anscombe ( 1957 ), Peter Geach ( 1957 ), and Charles Taylor ( 1964 ) all adhere to the former position, namely that intentional idiom is problematic and cannot be integrated with the natural sciences.
" " Like his radical bourgeois counterparts in England, Taylor would not concede that great extremes of wealth and poverty were natural outcomes of differences in talent ; on the contrary they were invariably the result of extra-economic coercion and deceit.
First, he took the natural logarithm of each side, then he used the Taylor series expansion for ln ( 1 − x ) as well as the sum of a geometric series:
Jared Taylor has argued that a natural hierarchy should triumph over the " false promise of egalitarianism ", and that the downfall of white dominance spells doom for representative government, the rule of law and freedom of speech.
While working as a lathe operator and foreman at Midvale Steel, Taylor noticed the natural differences in productivity between workers, which were driven by various causes, including differences in talent, intelligence, or motivations.
* My Glass House — An ongoing project set up by artist Judith Taylor by taking black and white pictures of natural habitat found in the prison's walls.
A note on " Self Love "-the term used by Taylor to denote a natural part of man's being, whereby a person has a natural desire for happiness that motivates all choices and which will manifest itself in Godly repentance when given the opportunity.
Taylor said Bolshakova earns no salary for her work, calling her a natural choice for the job because of her prior job as an English teacher.
White was able to find the resources to support Taylor University because of the recent discovery of large deposits of natural gas in the area.
In high school, Taylor was beginning to follow in his brother's footsteps but when his natural athletic abilities earned him a position as the point guard on the basketball team, he chose to focus on athletics instead, joining the track team and playing other various sports.
The approximation of G by chi squared is obtained by a second order Taylor expansion of the natural logarithm around 1.
" A 1995 piece in The Plain Dealer described Taylor as " A jolly giant of a man, he looks like a natural force-a mountain, perhaps, who can tell great stories.
Afterward, Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that the elegiac is the form " most natural to the reflective mind " and that it may be upon any subject, so long as it reflects on the poet himself.
On the night of the first summer rain, Mattie takes Esperanza, Estevan, and Taylor into the desert to see the natural world come to life.
Taylor is known for his belief that Western secular society does not satisfy the natural human desire for meaning.
In The Deathly Hallows Lectures, he explains the predominant eye symbolism of the series finale in light of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's natural theology and the consequent tradition of eye and mirror symbolism in Romantic literature.
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