Alexander Macfarlane FRSE LLD (21 April 1851 – 28 August 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician. Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie...
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Alexander Macfarlane (1851–1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician. Alexander Macfarlane may also refer to: Alexander MacFarlane (astronomer)...
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Alexander Macfarlane (June 17, 1818 – December 14, 1898) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1870...
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planes of split-complex numbers sharing the same real line. It was Alexander Macfarlane who promoted this concept in the 1890s as his Algebra of Physics...
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Alexander MacFarlane FRS (c. 1702 – 23 August 1755) was a Scottish person who was active as an astronomer, merchant, mathematician, judge, politician and...
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Look up Macfarlane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. MacFarlane may refer to: MacFarlane (surname), a surname Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist...
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structures beyond the associatively multiplicative class. In a review Alexander Macfarlane wrote: "The main idea of the work is not unification of the several...
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unit hyperbola, describing it as "quasi-harmonic motion". In 1894 Alexander Macfarlane circulated his essay "The Imaginary of Algebra", which used hyperbolic...
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Expressions" to the Bulletin of the Quaternion Society. Subsequently, Alexander Macfarlane described 15 criteria for clear expression with vectors in the same...
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structures beyond the associatively multiplicative class. In a review Alexander Macfarlane wrote: "The main idea of the work is not unification of the several...
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Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, MC, TD (11 May 1891 – 2 August 1970) was a British academic, mathematician, rower, and decorated British Army officer...
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details of physical units and their manipulation were addressed by Alexander Macfarlane in Physical Arithmetic in 1885. The science of kinematics created...
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published the first of several works on the logic of relatives. Alexander Macfarlane published his Principles of the Algebra of Logic in 1879, and in...
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Positive Angle | Negative Angle". Math Only Math. Retrieved 2020-08-26. Alexander Macfarlane (1894) "Fundamental theorems of analysis generalized for space",...
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university observatory in Britain. The Observatory was named after Alexander MacFarlane, a slaveholding Scottish merchant and astronomer who resided in Kingston...
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the 1890s Alexander Macfarlane was charting this submanifold through his Algebra of Physics and hyperbolic quaternions, though Macfarlane did not use...
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of the more prominent proponents of these biquaternions include Alexander Macfarlane, Arthur W. Conway, Ludwik Silberstein, and Cornelius Lanczos. As...
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quaternion exposition was perpetuated by Charles-Ange Laisant and Alexander Macfarlane. William K. Clifford expanded the types of biquaternions, and explored...
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called the radian circular measure when published in 1890. In 1893 Alexander Macfarlane wrote "the true analytical argument for the circular ratios is not...
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(1878) by W. K. Clifford identifies the conjugate hyperbola. In 1894 Alexander Macfarlane used an illustration of conjugate right hyperbolas in his study "Principles...
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gave it to the world, if only on account of its inconvenient form. Alexander Macfarlane (1902): "This work has served as the starting point of many advances...
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time the subject of a great deal of public attention. According to Alexander Macfarlane To obtain high honours in the Mathematical Tripos, a student must...
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Killing (1880, 1885), Henri Poincaré (1881), Homersham Cox (1881), Alexander Macfarlane (1894) and others (see History of Lorentz transformations). The beginning...
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{\displaystyle T} and T 1 {\displaystyle T^{1}} , as explained by Alexander Macfarlane:: 43 Maxwell had facetiously referred to Thomson as T {\displaystyle...
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(1912) Andrew Sutherland (1914) Alexander MacKay (1916) Donald Macfarlane (1917) Murdo Morrison (1918) Donald Macfarlane (1920) Neil Cameron (1921) Malcolm...
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quaternion multiplication. The primary exponent of hyperbolic versors was Alexander Macfarlane as he worked to shape quaternion theory to serve physical science...
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Mathematical physicists James Cockle, William Kingdon Clifford, and Alexander Macfarlane had all employed in their writings an equivalent mapping of the Cartesian...
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Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-8011-7, MR 2284396 Macfarlane, Alexander (2009) [1916], Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth...
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active interest in research-level mathematics, and was listed by Alexander Macfarlane as one of ten leading 19th-century British mathematicians. In the...
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Liebmann (1905). The hyperboloid was explored as a metric space by Alexander Macfarlane in his Papers in Space Analysis (1894). He noted that points on the...
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