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Macaulay


Macaulay


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).

People

Surname

  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian and Whig politician who played a major (and controversial) role in reforming education in India.
  • List of people with surnames Macaulay, MacAulay or McAulay

Given name

  • Macaulay Culkin, American actor
  • Macaulay Langstaff, English footballer

Places

  • Macaulay River, in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Macaulay railway station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • The Macaulay Institute, a land use research institute based in Aberdeen, Scotland
  • 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

  • Clan MacAulay, a Scottish clan historically seated at Ardincaple Castle, in Scotland.
  • Macaulay family of Lewis, a Scottish family historically centred on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotland.

Mathematics

  • Cohen–Macaulay ring, a commutative ring, named after Irvin Cohen and Francis Sowerby Macaulay (1862-1937).
  • Macaulay computer algebra system, a computer algebra system, named after Francis Sowerby Macaulay (1862-1937).
  • Macaulay2, a free computer algebra system, which is a successor of the preceding.
  • Macaulay matrix, a generalization of Sylvester matrix to n homogeneous polynomials in n variables.
  • Macaulay brackets, a notation used to describe the ramp function.
  • Macaulay Duration, a special case of bond duration, named after Frederick Macaulay (1882-1970).
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Other

  • Macaulay Cup, Scottish shinty cup
  • Macaulay Library, animal sound library
  • MacAulay and Co, BBC Radio Scotland daily magazine

See also

  • McAuley (disambiguation)
  • McCauley (disambiguation)
  • Macaulayism, named after Thomas Babinage Macauly, colonial policy of liquidating indigenous culture
  • Aulay
  • Maulay, France
  • Peter de Maulay (died 1241) counsellor to King John

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