Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

Scottish mathematician and physicist John Napier noted multiplication and division of numbers could be performed by addition and subtraction, respectively, of logarithms of those numbers.

John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

Maxwell's equations are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, since in an early form they are all found in a four-part paper, " On Physical Lines of Force ", which he published between 1861 and 1862.

* 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1768 )

If the Taylor series is centered at zero, then that series is also called a Maclaurin series, named after the Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin, who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.

* April 4 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician ( b. 1550 )

* October 4 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1768 )

** John Napier, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1617 )

* January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician ( b. 1717 )

* June 15 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician ( b. 1710 )

* October 1 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician ( b. 1687 )

* June 14 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician ( b. 1698 )

* June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician ( d. 1768 )

* Michael Scot, Scottish mathematician and astrologer ( b. 1175 )

** Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician born in Rothesay ( d. 1785 )

* February – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1746 )

* April 22 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1770 )

* Michael Scot, Scottish mathematician and astrologer ( d. 1232 )

This new effort resulted in the founding of Somerville Hall, named for the then recently deceased Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville.

* Robert Simson ( 1687 – 1768 ), Scottish mathematician

James Stirling ( May 1692 Garden, Stirlingshire – 5 December 1770 Edinburgh ) was a Scottish mathematician.

Robert Simson ( 14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768 ) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow.

Dugald Stewart ( November 22, 1753 – June 11, 1828 ) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician.

* Hammond, Matthew H., " Ethnicity and Writing of Medieval Scottish History ", in The Scottish Historical Review, Vol.

* September 23 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist ( b. 1761 )

* October 27 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist ( d. 1823 )

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

* Matthew George Easton, Scottish Presbyterian preacher and writer

Darnley's father, Matthew Earl of Lennox, had been declared guilty of treason in Scotland for his part in the war of the Rough Wooing, siding with the English as an opponent of Mary of Guise and Regent Arran, and his Scottish estates were forfeited in 1545.

The " Lennox crisis " refers to the political dilemma in England which arose from the dynastic ambition of the Lennoxes: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, was third in line to the Scottish throne, and his wife Margaret Douglas was niece to Henry VIII and granddaughter of Henry VII.

In September 1564, the Scottish Parliament restored Matthew Stewart's rights and titles as Earl of Lennox, and listened to a lengthy speech from the Queen's secretary William Maitland, who offered ;" it may be affirmid Scotland in na manis age that presentlie levis wes in gritter tranquillitie.

This was nicknamed tonsura magorum (" Magus " was accepted as equivalent to druid, and to this day the Magoi of Matthew 2, are druidhean in the Scottish Gaelic Bible ).

Matthew George Easton ( 1823-1894 ) was a Scottish Presbyterian preacher and writer.

The campus was originally designed by the Scottish architectural practice Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall in a low-rise, highly functional, modern style, envisaged in order to integrate with the contours of the surrounding landscape.

* Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Bt ( J M Barrie, Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan ) ( 1860 – 1937 )

In 1544 Lady Margaret married a Scottish exile, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, ( 1516 – 1571 ), who later became regent of Scotland in 1570-1571.

Matthew Boulton FRS (; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809 ) was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt.

In 1998, Matthew Hudson sold Prestwick Airport to Stagecoach, a large Scottish transportation group helmed by Sir Brian Souter.

Lord Rokeby was born Matthew Robinson in a Scottish family that had settled in Kent.

Matthew Stewart FRS FRSE ( c. 1717 / 1719 – 23 January, 1785 ) was a Scottish mathematician and minister of religion.

It was created in 1918 for the Scottish businessman Sir Matthew Arthur, 1st Baronet.

Sir Alexander Matthew " Matt " Busby, ( 26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994 ) was a Scottish football player and manager, most noted for managing Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970 – 1971 season.

Type material is mainly found in the collections of Alexander Abercrombie ( India ), Robert Dukinfield Darbishire, Prof. Alfred Cort Haddon ( Torres Straits ), Reverend James Hadfield ( Lifu, Loyalty Islands ), Lewis John Shackleford ( especially Marginella ), George Cooper Spence ( especially African land snails and Urocoptis and many specimens from Matthew William Kemble Connolly and Hugh Berthon Preston ), Frederick W. Townsend ( Persian Gulf ), syntype material from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) and that received from the Smithsonian Institution in 1973 in exchange.

Patrick Matthew ( 20 October 1790 – 8 June 1874 ) was a Scottish landowner and fruit farmer.