William Rowan Hamilton

Also known as Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton Mathematics Institute

Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics. His theoretical works and mathematical equations are considered fundamental to modern theoretical physics, particularly his reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics. His research included the analysis of geometrical optics, Fourier analysis, and quaternions, the last of which made him one of the founders of modern linear algebra.

Occupation: mathematician, physicist, astronomer, university teacher
Position held: Royal Astronomer of Ireland
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: August 4, 1805
Died: September 2, 1865

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Helen Maria Baylyspouse

Theory of Systems of Raysknown for On a General Method in Dynamicsknown for The Elements of Quaternionsknown for On Some Results Obtained by the Quaternion Analysis, Respecting the Inscription of Gauche Polygons in Surfaces of the Second Orderknown for Hamilton's principlenotable work On the osculating twisted cubic to a curve of double curvaturenotable work VIII. <i>Second theorem of algebraic elimination, connected with the question of the possibility of resolving, in finite terms, equations of the Fifth degree</i>notable work XCI. <i>Theorem respecting algebraic elimination, connected with the question of the possibility of resolving in finite terms the general equation of the fifth degree</i>. Extracted by permission, from a communication recently made to the Royal Irisnotable work quaternionnotable work Hamiltonian mechanicsnotable work Hamiltonian pathnotable work

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Also known as Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton Mathematics Institute

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