Francis Sowerby Macaulay

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Francis Sowerby Macaulay
Macaulay representation
Macaulay's resultant
Cohen–Macaulay ring
AwardsFRS (1928)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Francis Sowerby Macaulay

Macaulay and Macaulay2 computer algebra systems are named for Macaulay.[3]

Macaulay was educated at

St Paul's School in London from 1885 to 1911. His students included J. E. Littlewood and G. N. Watson
.

In 1928 Macaulay was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Publications

  • MacAulay, F. S. (1902), "Some Formulæ in Elimination",
    doi:10.1112/plms/s1-35.1.3
  • Macaulay, Francis Sowerby (1916), The Algebraic Theory of Modular Systems, The Cornell Library of Historical Mathematical Monographs, Cambridge University Press,
    ISBN 978-1275570412

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0018
    .
  2. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Francis Sowerby Macaulay", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  3. doi:10.1090/bull/1787
    .
  4. ^ "Macaulay, Francis Sowerby (FML879FS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.


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