Editing Colin Maclaurin (section)

==Notable works==
Some of his important works are:

*''Geometria Organica'' – 1720
*''De Linearum Geometricarum Proprietatibus'' – 1720
*''Treatise on Fluxions'' – 1742 (763 pages in two volumes. The first systematic exposition of Newton's methods.)
*''Treatise of Algebra'' – 1748 (two years after his death.)
*''Account of Newton's Discoveries'' – Incomplete upon his death and published in 1748<ref>It cannot be in 1750, as the French translation is published in 1749 ([https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1042623z/ see online at Gallica]).</ref>
* {{Cite book|title=Account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries|volume=|publisher=Laurent Durand|location=Paris|year=1749|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=743185}}

Colin Maclaurin was the name used for the new Mathematics and Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics Building at [[Heriot-Watt University]], Edinburgh.

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File:MacLaurin - Treatise of algebra, 1753 - 1429142.jpg|French edition of the ''Treatise of algebra'' (1748)
File:MacLaurin, Colin – Account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries, 1749 – BEIC 743185.jpg|French edition of the ''Account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries'' (1749)
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