Aftermath
In 1912 the International Congress of Mathematicians met in Cambridge England. Macfarlane attended, as did Ludwik Silberstein, who used biquaternions in his presentation to the congress and in his book Theory of Relativity. Silberstein made no reference to the society or Macfarlane, viewing them as the common background of the time. Silberstein’s flowing prose and concrete application of relativity to electromagnetic theory shifted the attention of the scientific public from the abstract algebra with which the society had been concerned to physical science.
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