Sir William Rowan Hamilton
1805-1865
Irish Mathematician
Sir William Hamilton is perhaps best known for developing the theory of quaternions, the first non-cummutative form of algebra. However, he als...
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The Irish mathematical physicist Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) reshaped theoretical optics by basing it on his law of varying action. His analysis of motion anticipated several basic notions ...
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William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician and astronomer of the 19th century, considered by some to be near in intellect to Isaac Newton. He created a novel system of algebra for operating on ...
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Hamilton was a brilliant child prodigy. When he was five years old he knew Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and before he was ten, he was fluent in Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Hindustani, and a host of other ...
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