Francis Sowerby Macaulay 1885 to 1911. His students included J. E. Littlewood and G. N. Watson. In 1928 Macaulay was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 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" (an old term for ideals), which greatly influenced the later course of commutative algebra. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant and the Macaulay and Macaulay2 computer algebra systems are named for Macaulay. Macaulay was educated at
How Late It Was, How Late Sammy dictates his thoughts in working Scottish dialect, which includes frequent usage of obscenity. Sammy was married once, right after his first term, in prison. Even though the marriage didn’t last (due to how young both Sammy and his ex were, and probably his anger and drinking) Sammy and his ex-wife have a 15-year-old son together, Peter. After his failed marriage and a few more terms in jail, Sammy moved in with his girlfriend Helen. The book opens with Sammy waking up after passing out drunk in an alley. Right from the beginning, the reader sees the drinking tendencies of