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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A Poster of William Rowan Hamilton
Mathematicians born in the same country
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| Honours awarded to William Rowan Hamilton (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Royal Society Royal Medal | 1835 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1835 |
| Lunar features | Crater Hamilton |
Other Web sites
- Maynooth University Ireland (The Hamilton walk)
- European Mathematical Society (Hamilton's papers)
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