William Rowan Hamilton
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton | |
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 Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) | |
| Born | 4 August 1805 Dublin, Ireland |
| Dee'd | 2 September 1865 (aged 60) Dublin, Ireland |
| Naitionality | Erse |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Kent for | Hamilton's principle Hamiltonian mechanics Hamiltonians Hamilton–Jacobi equation Quaternions Biquaternions Hamiltonian path Icosian calculus Nabla seembol Versor Makkin the wird 'tensor' Makkin the word 'scalar' cis notation Hamiltonian vector field Icosian gemme Universal algebra Hodograph Hamiltonian group Cayley–Hamilton theorem |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Helen Maria Bayly |
| Bairns | William Edwin Hamilton, Archibald Henry Hamilton, Helen Eliza Amelia O'Regan Hamilton |
| Awairds | Ryal Medal (1835) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, astronomy, pheesics |
| Institutions | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Academic advisors | John Brinkley |
| Influences | Zerah Colburn John T. Graves |
| Influenced | Peter Guthrie Tait |
Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) wis an Erse mathematician. He made important contreibutions tae optics, clessical mechanics an algebra.
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