About Francis Sowerby Macaulay
Lived 1862 – 1937 (aged 74). Francis Sowerby Macaulay was a British mathematician.
Francis Sowerby Macaulay FRS (11 February 1862, Witney – 9 February 1937, Cambridge) was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. He is known for his 1916 book The Algebraic Theory of Modular Systems (an old term for ideals), which greatly influenced the later course of commutative algebra. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant and the Macaulay and Macaulay2 computer algebra systems are named for Macaulay.
Macaulay was educated at Kingswood School and graduated with distinction from St John's College, Cambridge. He taught the top mathematics class in 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.
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British mathematician (1862–1937)
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Francis Sowerby Macaulay was born on 11 February 1862 in Witney.
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Francis Sowerby Macaulay died on 9 February 1937 in Cambridge.
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