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Alexander Macfarlane FRSE LLD (21 April 1851 – 28 August 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician. Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie...

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...

Look up Macfarlane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. MacFarlane may refer to: MacFarlane (surname), a surname Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist...

structures beyond the associatively multiplicative class. In a review Alexander Macfarlane wrote: "The main idea of the work is not unification of the several...

(1912) Andrew Sutherland (1914) Alexander MacKay (1916) Donald Macfarlane (1917) Murdo Morrison (1918) Donald Macfarlane (1920) Neil Cameron (1921) Malcolm...

unit hyperbola, describing it as "quasi-harmonic motion". In 1894 Alexander Macfarlane circulated his essay "The Imaginary of Algebra", which used hyperbolic...

Expressions" to the Bulletin of the Quaternion Society. Subsequently, Alexander Macfarlane described 15 criteria for clear expression with vectors in the same...

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...

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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details of physical units and their manipulation were addressed by Alexander Macfarlane in Physical Arithmetic in 1885. The science of kinematics created...

(1878) by W. K. Clifford identifies the conjugate hyperbola. In 1894 Alexander Macfarlane used an illustration of conjugate right hyperbolas in his study "Principles...

quaternion exposition was perpetuated by Charles-Ange Laisant and Alexander Macfarlane. William K. Clifford expanded the types of biquaternions, and explored...

called the radian circular measure when published in 1890. In 1893 Alexander Macfarlane wrote "the true analytical argument for the circular ratios is not...

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...

structures beyond the associatively multiplicative class. In a review Alexander Macfarlane wrote: "The main idea of the work is not unification of the several...

Killing (1880, 1885), Henri Poincaré (1881), Homersham Cox (1881), Alexander Macfarlane (1894) and others (see History of Lorentz transformations). The beginning...

quaternion multiplication. The primary exponent of hyperbolic versors was Alexander Macfarlane as he worked to shape quaternion theory to serve physical science...

Skye, Macfarlane joined the Rev Donald Macdonald, Shieldaig and Alexander Macfarlane, a schoolmaster on Raasay, in forming a presbytery. Macfarlane was...

of the more prominent proponents of these biquaternions include Alexander Macfarlane, Arthur W. Conway, Ludwik Silberstein, and Cornelius Lanczos. As...

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...

university observatory in Britain. The Observatory was named after Alexander MacFarlane, a slaveholding Scottish merchant and astronomer who resided in Kingston...