Sir William Rowan Hamilton

1805 - 1865

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In 1843 Hamilton discovered the quaternions, the first noncommutative algebra to be studied. He felt this would revolutionise mathematical physics and he spent the rest of his life working on quaternions.
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List of References (31 books/articles)

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. J L Synge and Hamilton
  2. W R Hamilton's Elements of Quaternions

Honours awarded to William Rowan Hamilton
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Royal Society Royal Medal1835
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh1835
Lunar featuresCrater Hamilton
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  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. NNDB
  3. Hamilton 2005 pages
  1. David R Wilkins
  2. Maynooth University Ireland (The Hamilton walk)
  3. European Mathematical Society (Hamilton's papers)
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