Macaulay

Macaulay, 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).

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