Description:Chapters: Alexander Macfarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie, Gavin Pyper, Alexander Mitchell Hodge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexander Macfarlane FRSE (April 21, 1851 August 28, 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician. Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland and studied at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis, on the conditions governing the electric spark, was subsequently published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It brought him to the notice of James Clerk Maxwell, and in 1878 Macfarlane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh During his life, Macfarlane played a prominent role in research and education. He taught at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, was physics professor at the University of Texas (1885 1894), professor of Advanced Electricity, and later of mathematical physics, at Lehigh University. MacFarlane was the secretary of the Quaternion Society and compiler of its publications. Macfarlane was also the author of a popular 1916 collection of mathematical biographies (Ten British Mathematicians), a similar work on physicists (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, 1919), and he compiled a bibliography on quaternions in 1904. Significantly, by exploiting the concept of hyperbolic versor originating with James Cockle, he invented hyperbolic quaternions, which anticipated Minkowski space. (He was imbued with hyperbolic geometry through his brother-in-law G. B. Halsted while they taught in Austin.) Macfarlane actively participated in several International Congresses of Mathematicians including the primordial meeting in Chicago, 1893, and the Paris meeting of 1900 where he spok...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=88233We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Blairgowrie and Rattray: Alexander MacFarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie. To get started finding People from Blairgowrie and Rattray: Alexander MacFarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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28
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2010
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1157185940
People from Blairgowrie and Rattray: Alexander MacFarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie
Description: Chapters: Alexander Macfarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie, Gavin Pyper, Alexander Mitchell Hodge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexander Macfarlane FRSE (April 21, 1851 August 28, 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician. Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland and studied at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis, on the conditions governing the electric spark, was subsequently published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It brought him to the notice of James Clerk Maxwell, and in 1878 Macfarlane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh During his life, Macfarlane played a prominent role in research and education. He taught at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, was physics professor at the University of Texas (1885 1894), professor of Advanced Electricity, and later of mathematical physics, at Lehigh University. MacFarlane was the secretary of the Quaternion Society and compiler of its publications. Macfarlane was also the author of a popular 1916 collection of mathematical biographies (Ten British Mathematicians), a similar work on physicists (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, 1919), and he compiled a bibliography on quaternions in 1904. Significantly, by exploiting the concept of hyperbolic versor originating with James Cockle, he invented hyperbolic quaternions, which anticipated Minkowski space. (He was imbued with hyperbolic geometry through his brother-in-law G. B. Halsted while they taught in Austin.) Macfarlane actively participated in several International Congresses of Mathematicians including the primordial meeting in Chicago, 1893, and the Paris meeting of 1900 where he spok...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=88233We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Blairgowrie and Rattray: Alexander MacFarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie. To get started finding People from Blairgowrie and Rattray: Alexander MacFarlane, Andy Clyde, Hamish Henderson, George Spalding, George Drummond, Eric Brodie, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.