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Taylor Brook

Taylor, BROOK (1685-1731), mathematician, was born at Edmonton, and educated at Cambridge. He was secretary of the Royal Society 1714-18. His Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa (1715) contained the first enunciation of the calculus of finite differences as well as the formula called "Taylor's theorem."