urn:taro:utexas.cah.00515 Alexander Macfarlane Collection, 1900-2006 October 6, 2006 Encoded in XMetal 2 by Sean Heyliger according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Descriptive Summary Macfarlane, Alexander, 1851-1913 Alexander Macfarlane Collection, 1900-2006Materials are written in English. 2006-183 1 in. Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Alexander Macfarlane (1851-1913), a Scottish-born professor of mathematics and physics, was a faculty member of the Department of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin from 1885-1894. The collection consists of color reprints of published articles, unpublished essays, and cataloging records. Biographical Note

Alexander Macfarlane (1851-1913), a Scottish-born professor of mathematics and physics, was a faculty member of the Department of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin from 1885-1894. He later went on to teach at Lehigh University from 1895 to 1908, where wrote a number of works on quaterions, vector analysis, and British mathematicians.

Scope and Contents

The Alexander Macfarlane Collection consists of color reprints of published articles, unpublished essays, and cataloging records. Dr. Jerry Frazee, a retired chemistry professor at the University of Texas at Austin, compiled the materials within the collection.

Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics

 Preferred Citation

Alexander Macfarlane Collection, 1900-2006, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

 Index Terms Macfarlane, Alexander, 1851-1913 Ortiz, Eduardo L. Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Engineering Quaterions Vector analysis Vector spaces Detailed Description of the Papers 4RM132 Alexander Macfarlane, “Space Analysis: Brief of Twelve Lectures on the George Leib Harrison Foundation,” [color copy, incomplete], 1900 4RM132 Alexander Macfarlane, “Peter Guthrie Tait,” 1902 4RM132 Materials related to Macfarlane’s “Vector Analysis and Quaterions,” 1906, 2006 4RM132 Materials related to Macfarlane’s “Ten British Mathematicians,” 2006 4RM132 Eduardo L. Ortiz, “International Association for Promoting the Calculus of Quaterions,” 2001 4RM132 Jerry D. Frazee, “Alexander MacFarlane and the Great Vector Debate,” 2006