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Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra—in particular, discovering the algebra of quaternions. His work proved significant for the development of quantum mechanics.
William Rowan Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1805. He became interested in mathematics when he lost a competition against an American child, Zerah Colburn, who was incredibly quick at...
Born. 4 August 1805. Dublin, Ireland. Died. 2 September 1865. Dublin, Ireland. Summary. William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish astronomer and mathematician who discovered the quaternions. View nine larger pictures. Biography.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA, FRAS (3/4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin , and Royal Astronomer of Ireland , living at Dunsink Observatory .
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Aug 3, 2005 · William Rowan Hamilton: mathematical genius. 03 Aug 2005. This year Ireland celebrates the bicentenary of the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, best remembered for "quaternions" and for his pioneering work on optics and dynamics. Picture of genius.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies in a simplified and elegant form called Hamilton's equations. He also made contributions in optics through a similar formulation of its laws.
The Irish mathematician, physicist and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton, not to be confused with the Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856), was born in Dublin on August 3 or 4, 1805. He died after a relatively quiet life on September 2, 1865 in Dunsink, now belonging to the Greater Dublin Area.
