Portrait of Brook Taylor
. Probably Louis Goupy, circa 1720; National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1920. Public domain (author died 1747; life-plus-100, pre-1931 U.S. publication) and faithful reproduction / PD-Art. Source and usage information on the linked Wikimedia file page. Source.
Brook Taylor (1685–1731) was an English mathematician best known for his contributions to calculus and for the Taylor series, which is named after him. The Taylor series is a method that expresses a function as an infinite sum of terms calculated from the values of its derivatives at a single point. This concept is fundamental in mathematical analysis, providing a way to approximate complex functions with polynomials.
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