Talk:Colin Maclaurin

message: What is the correct pronunciation of his surname (including stress)? Reminiscenza 06:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Technically, Alia Sabur is not the youngest because in addition to being hired three days before her 19th birthday, she did not actually start working as a college professor until a month later.  She was "hired" ahead of time simply so she could be recorded as the youngest.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SenSo (talk • contribs) 16:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not convinced the Maclaurin/Sabur comparison is an entirely valid one, regardless of what the Guinness Book of Records says.  Alia Sabur's achievement is certainly an impressive one (when I was that age, I'd only just started my BA) but she's an assistant professor (a lecturer in UK terminology) whereas Maclaurin was appointed to a chair - the equivalent of a full professorship in US terminology. -- Nicholas Jackson (talk) 16:37, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've cut back the editorialising and left the article containing what is undisputed: that he was the youngest professor ever. Any editor wishing to add to this material should provide a reliable source, and consider that the burden of proof is on the editor wishing to add, or retain, material. SHEFFIELDSTEELTALK 21:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction 

message: I just stumbled upon a nice article about Maclaurin.
Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of
Fluxions
Author(s): Judith V. Grabiner
Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 104, No. 5 (May, 1997), pp. 393-410
Published by: Mathematical Association of America
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2974733
Accessed: 21/12/2008 19:46
I will read it and see if there is anything worth adding. Thenub314 (talk) 00:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice article 

message: I just went through and did a copyedit for this article, and I had a few thoughts. First, there is definitely some excellent information presented, although there are a lot of extra sources that don't appear to be cited (see the "sources" section). Secondly, there is too great a variety of information for just one section, it needs to be broken up. This needs work, that's for sure, to raise its article class. Good job researching, though. Spring12 (talk) 21:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  State of the Article 

message: "Maclaurin attributed Taylor in his work on approximating functions by series. [5]. At the time, Maclaurin was unaware and published"
The previous sentence says Maclaurin attributed Taylor, and the next says he was unaware...unaware of what?  Taylor's work?  If that's the case then the two sentences are contradictory.  Peter Stalin (talk) 16:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion 

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