# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:57.615Z

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name: "Francis Sowerby Macaulay"
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description: "Francis Sowerby Macaulay FRS was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. He is known for his 1916 book The Algebraic Theory of Modular Systems, 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."
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birthDate: "1862-02-11"
deathDate: "1937-02-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump