He organized the defences
He organized the defences of Edinburgh against the Jacobites in 1745, the year before his death. On the strength of 1720's Geometria organica, Newton recommended him for Edinburgh's chair of mathematics, and he went on to give a systematic geometric account of the calculus in his Treatise on Fluxions. FTP, name this mathematician, best known for a special case of an infinite power series of derivatives in which the variable is set to zero, a variant of the Taylor series.
He organized the defences of Edinburgh against the Jacobites in 1745, the year before his death.
Colin Maclaurin