Brook Taylor

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5 total works indexed

1. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 45,540x

2. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 22,149x

3. The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners

   · 2019 · cited 20,829x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,518x

5. Measuring Service Quality: A Reexamination and Extension

   · 1992 · cited 14,564x

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Quotes

• “Considering how few, and how simple the Principles are, upon which the whole Art of PERSPECTIVE depends, and withal how useful, nay how absolutely necessary this Art is to all forts of Designing; I have often wonder'd, that it has still been left in so low a degree of Perfection, as it is found to be, in the Books that have been hitherto wrote upon it.”
• “It seems that those, who have hitherto treated of this Subject, have been more conversant in the Practice of Designing, than in the Principles of Geometry... that might have enabled them to render the Principles of it more universal, and more convenient for Practice. In this Book I have endeavour'd to do this; and have done my utmost to render the Principles of the Art as general, and as universal as may be, and to devise such Constructions, as might be the most simple and useful in Practice.”
• “I make no difference between the Plane of the , and any other Plane whatsoever; for since Planes, as Planes, are alike in Geometry, it is most proper to consider them as so, and to explain their Properties in general, leaving the Artist himself to apply them in particular Cases, as Occasion requires.”
• “The true and best way of learning any Art, is not to see a great many Examples done by another Person, but to possess ones self first of the Principles of it, and then to make them familiar, by exercising ones self in the Practice. For it is Practice alone, that makes a Man perfect in any thing.”
• “I have endeavour'd to make every thing so plain, that a very little Skill in Geometry may be sufficient to enable one to read this Book by himself.”
• “And upon this occasion I would advise all my Readers, who desire to make themselves Masters of this Subject, not to be contented with the Schemes they find here; but upon every Occasion to draw new ones of their own, in all the Variety of Circumstances they can think of. This will take up a little more Time at first; but in a little while they will find the vast Benefit of it, by the extensive Notions it will give them of the Nature of these Principles.”

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Key facts

Born

Brook Taylor , 18 August 1685, Edmonton , Middlesex , England

Died

29 December 1731 (1731-12-29) (aged 46), London, England

Resting place

St Ann's, Soho

Citizenship

English

Alma mater

St John's College, Cambridge

Known for

Taylor's theorem , Taylor series , Finite difference , Integration by parts

Fields

Mathematics

Institutions

St John's College, Cambridge

Academic advisors

John Machin and John Keill

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Brook Taylor. Line engraving after R. Earlom. Wellcome V0005740.jpg

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