Macaulay, Macauley, MacAulay, or McAulay may refer to:

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Macaulay (surname) ''Macaulay'', ''Macauley'', ''MacAulay'', ''McAulay'' and ''McAuley'' are surnames of Irish origin originating in Westmeath, Leinster anglicized from Irish Mac Amhalghaidh in the English language. The surname is also found in Scotland of distinc ...

, an English-language surname with multiple etymological origins (also includes surnames ''Macauley'', ''MacAulay'' and ''McAulay'').

People

Surname

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. * 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 *

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 *

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 prom ...

, American actor * Macaulay Connor, fictional character in the play '' The Philadelphia Story'' and its adaptations

Places

* Macaulay River, in the South Island of New Zealand *

Macaulay railway station Macaulay railway station is located on the Upfield line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the inner northern Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, and it opened on 1 December 1887 as Macaulay Road. It was renamed Macaulay on 1 May 1909.

, 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 covers ...

, a land use research institute based in Aberdeen, Scotland *

William E. Macaulay Honors College William E. Macaulay Honors College, commonly referred to as Macaulay Honors College or Macaulay, is a highly selective honors college for students at the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. The college awards full-tuition ...

, 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 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 Argyll ...

, a Scottish clan historically seated at Ardincaple Castle, in Scotland. *

Macaulay family of Lewis The Macaulay family of Uig in Lewis, known in Scottish Gaelic as ''Clann mhic Amhlaigh'', were a small family located around Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There is no connection between the Macaulays of Lewis and C ...

, a Scottish family historically centred on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotland.

Mathematics

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 Cohen ...

and

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 Systems ...

(1862-1937). * Macaulay computer algebra system, a computer algebra system, named after

(1862-1937). *

Macaulay2 Macaulay2 is a free computer algebra system created by Daniel Grayson (from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and Michael Stillman (from Cornell University) for computation in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Overvi ...

, a free computer algebra system, which is a successor of the preceding. * Macaulay matrix, a generalization of

Sylvester matrix In mathematics, a Sylvester matrix is a matrix associated to two univariate polynomials with coefficients in a field or a commutative ring. The entries of the Sylvester matrix of two polynomials are coefficients of the polynomials. The determinant ...

to ''n'' homogeneous polynomials in ''n'' variables. *

Macaulay brackets Macaulay brackets are a notation used to describe the ramp function :\ = \begin 0, & x < 0 \\ x, & x \ge 0. \end A popular alternative transcription uses angle brackets, ''viz.''

\langle x \rangle

.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 o ...

. *

Macaulay Duration In finance, the duration of a financial asset that consists of fixed cash flows, such as a bond, is the weighted average of the times until those fixed cash flows are received. When the price of an asset is considered as a function of yield, dur ...

, a special case of bond duration, named after

Frederick Macaulay Frederick Robertson Macaulay (August 12, 1882 – March 1970) was a Canadian economist of the Institutionalist School. He is known for introducing the concept of bond duration. Macaulay's contributions also include a mammoth empirical stud ...

(1882-1970).

Other

* Macaulay Cup, Scottish shinty cup *

Macaulay Library The Macaulay Library is the world's largest archive of animal sounds. It includes more than 33 million photographs, 1.2 million audio recordings, and over two hundred thousand videos covering 96 percent of the world's bird species. There are an ever ...

, animal sound library *

MacAulay and Co ''MacAulay and Co.'' was a daily magazine show on BBC Radio Scotland. The programme was presented by comedian Fred MacAulay with a different guest presenter each week, and featured a range of guests including journalists, musicians, comedians and ...

, BBC Radio Scotland daily magazine

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