Alexander McAulay was a mathematician and physicist who was the first professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. He was also a proponent of dual quaternions, which he termed "octonions" or "Clifford biquaternions".
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, scientist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- December 9, 1863
- Died
- July 6, 1931
