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Treatise of Fluxions

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In Colin Maclaurin
His two-volume Treatise of Fluxions (1742), a defense of the Newtonian method, was written in reply to criticisms by Bishop George Berkeley of England that Newton’s calculus was based on faulty reasoning. Apart from providing a geometric framework for Newton’s method of fluxions, the treatise is notable…
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influence on British mathematics

In mathematics: Newton and Leibniz
…1742 of Colin Maclaurin’s influential Treatise of Fluxions.
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