Alexander Macfarlane

Scots logician, physicist, an mathematician

Prof Alexander Macfarlane FRSE LLD (21 Apryle 1851 – 28 August 1913) wis a Scots logician, physicist, an mathematician.

Alexander Macfarlane
Alexander Macfarlane in 1895
Born21 April 1851 (1851-04-21)
Blairgowrie, Scotland
Dee'd28 August 1913 (1913-08-29) (aged 62)
Chatham, Ontario, Canadae
ResidenceChatham, Ontario
NaitionalityScots
Alma materVarsity o Edinburgh
Kent forScienteefic biographies
Algebra o Physics
Scientific career
FieldsLogic
Physics
Mathematics
InstitutionsVarsity o Texas
Lehigh Varsity
Doctoral advisorPeter Guthrie Tait
InfluencesWilliam Rowan Hamilton
William Kingdon Clifford
Arthur Cayley
InfluencedG. W. Pierce
Quaternion Society