Macaulay, Macauley, MacAulay, or McAulay may refer to:
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Macaulay (surname), an English-language surname with multiple etymological origins (also includes surnames ''Macauley'', ''MacAulay'' and ''McAulay'').
People
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 184 ...
, 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian and
Whig politician who played a major (and controversial) role in reforming education in India.
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List of people with surnames Macaulay, MacAulay or McAulay
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George Macaulay Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the ...
, English historian
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John Babington Macaulay Baxter
John Babington Macaulay Baxter (February 16, 1868 – December 27, 1946) was a New Brunswick lawyer, jurist and the 19th premier of New Brunswick.
Baxter served in the Canadian Army and was the author of ''Historical Records of the New Bruns ...
, New Brunswick jurist and politician
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Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin; ) is an American actor. Often regarded as one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, he was placed 2nd on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars". Culkin rose to promi ...
, American actor
* Macaulay Connor, fictional character in the play ''
The Philadelphia Story'' and its adaptations
Places
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Macaulay River, in the South Island of New Zealand
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Macaulay railway station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
* The
Macaulay Institute
The Macaulay Institute, formally the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and sometimes referred to simply as The Macaulay, is a research institute based at Aberdeen in Scotland, which is now part of the James Hutton Institute. Its work cov ...
, a land use research institute based in Aberdeen, Scotland
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William E. Macaulay Honors College, a school which is part of City University of New York, in New York, USA
* MacAulay Field, Canadian football stadium in Sackville, NS, Canada
Families
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Clan MacAulay
Clan MacAulay ( gd, Clann Amhlaoibh, ), also spelt Macaulay or Macauley is a Scottish clan. The clan was historically centred on the lands of Ardincaple, which are today consumed by the little village of Rhu and burgh of Helensburgh in Argyl ...
, a Scottish clan historically seated at Ardincaple Castle, in Scotland.
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Macaulay family of Lewis, a Scottish family historically centred on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotland.
Mathematics
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Cohen–Macaulay ring
In mathematics, a Cohen–Macaulay ring is a commutative ring with some of the algebro-geometric properties of a smooth variety, such as local equidimensionality. Under mild assumptions, a local ring is Cohen–Macaulay exactly when it is a fini ...
, a commutative ring, named after
Irvin Cohen
Irvin Sol Cohen (1917 – February 14, 1955) was an American mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked on local rings. He was a student of Oscar Zariski at Johns Hopkins University.
In his thesis he proved the Co ...
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Francis Sowerby Macaulay
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 Syste ...
(1862-1937).
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Macaulay computer algebra system, a computer algebra system, named after
Francis Sowerby Macaulay
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 Syste ...
(1862-1937).
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Macaulay2, a free computer algebra system, which is a successor of the preceding.
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Macaulay matrix Macaulay, Macauley, MacAulay, or McAulay may refer to:
Name
Surname
*Macaulay (surname), an English-language surname with multiple etymological origins (also includes surnames ''Macauley'', ''MacAulay'' and ''McAulay'').
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, a generalization of
Sylvester matrix to ''n'' homogeneous polynomials in ''n'' variables.
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Macaulay brackets
Macaulay brackets are a notation used to describe the ramp function
The ramp function is a unary real function, whose graph is shaped like a ramp. It can be expressed by numerous definitions, for example "0 for negative inputs, output equals in ...
, a notation used to describe the
ramp function
The ramp function is a unary real function, whose graph is shaped like a ramp. It can be expressed by numerous definitions, for example "0 for negative inputs, output equals input for non-negative inputs". The term "ramp" can also be used for ot ...
.
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Macaulay Duration, a special case of bond duration, named after
Frederick Macaulay (1882-1970).
Other
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Macaulay Cup, Scottish shinty cup
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Macaulay Library, animal sound library
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MacAulay and Co, BBC Radio Scotland daily magazine
See also
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McAuley (disambiguation)
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McCauley (disambiguation)
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Macaulayism, named after Thomas Babinage Macauly, colonial policy of liquidating indigenous culture
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Aulay
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Maulay, France
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Peter de Maulay (died 1241) counsellor to King John
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