Sir William Rowan Hamilton by Thomas L. Hankins

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Thomas L. Hankins

496 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography mathematics science technology medium-paced
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One of the most imaginative mathematicians of the nineteenth century, Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) changed the course of modern algebra with his discovery of quaternions in 1843. Although Hamilton's work was largely theoretical, his idea...

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