ON June 14, two hundred years ago, the famous Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin died at York, while a guest of Thomas Herring, then the Archbishop of York, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, and what appears to be most major media outlets, Alia Sabur (pictured above) has broken the record for the world’s youngest professor. Sabur, 19, will ...

SEVERAL of my well-educatit friends struggled when asked to identify Colin Maclaurin. Among the suggestions were: a Scottish wing three-quarter of the 1960s, a fashion designer, and, most bizarre, the ...

The Archive for History of Exact Sciences casts light upon the conceptual groundwork of the sciences by analyzing the historical course of mathematical and quantitative thought and the precise theory ...

Colin Maclaurin '38 of Boston has been elected captain of next year's skiing team. Be acted as captain during the second half of last year's season. Maclaurin attended Milton Academy and had skied two ...