William Rowan Hamilton

The Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, finding himself on a walk without a pencil when his life's great discovery occurred to him, scratched the formula for quaternions on a stone bridge with a nail.

Michael Kaplan: The Discovery of Neptune 2009

Next, for n = 4, En can be inter - preted as the space of quaternions a + ib + jc + kd, which were created by William Rowan Hamilton

INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

William Rowan Hamilton was born at midnight between the 3rd and 4th of August, 1805, at Dublin, in the house which was then 29, but subsequently 36, Dominick Street.

Great Astronomers 1876

Perhaps it has been prejudicial to Brinkley's fame in this direction, that he was immediately followed in his chair by so mighty a genius as William Rowan Hamilton.

Great Astronomers 1876

Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in the 1840s.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] ReligiousRight 2010

Ireland's own, the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, was knighted in the library of Trinity College during the closing ceremony, in what was a great honour, we are told, for both the university and the country.

Irish Blogs 2010

In 1843 a mathematical physicist, William Rowan Hamilton, extended the idea of an axis of imaginary numbers in the plane to a three-dimensional space of quaternion imaginaries.

Right Pundits 2009

DUBLIN -- When he was director of the Dunsink Observatory here, William Rowan Hamilton, an eccentric and eminent scientist, used to exercise by hopping around the building's tall balustrade on one foot.

unknown title 2009

269 The unification of dynamics and optics by William Rowan Hamilton 1805-65, the Irish mathematician and professor at Trinity College, Dublin, was of lasting influence on mathematical physics.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

(1821-1895) while training to be a lawyer went to Dublin to hear William Rowan Hamilton lecture on quaternions.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010