Alexander Macfarlane FRSE LLD (21 April 1851 - 28 August 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician.

Life

Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, to Daniel MacFarlane (Shoemaker, Blairgowrie) and Ann Small. He studied at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis "The disruptive discharge