William Rowan Hamilton ; (Mathematician and Astronomer) ... Drawing of Brougham Bridge on the Royal Canal, where Hamilton inscribed the famous formula for his Quaternions.
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William Rowan Hamilton was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1805, and except for short visits elsewhere, spent his whole life there. He was Ireland's greatest claim to fame in the field of mathematics. He was orphaned at an early age, but even before that, when only one year old, he was sent to live with an uncle.
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and Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the Dublin Professor of Astronomy, ... R. P. Graves, curate of Windermere, an account of the meeting of a brilliant company in the Lake District, in July 1844, which can scarcely fail to interest our readers, bringing into view, as it does, a number of men famous for intellect,
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`Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865), mathematician, born in Dublin at midnight, between 3 and 4 Aug., 1805, was the fourth child of Archibald Hamilton, a solicitor there, and his wife Sarah Hutton, a relative of Dr. Hutton the mathematician.
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Mr. Hamilton was quite a famous person and Dublin people came to know the ideas of quaternions even though they referred to them as ‘quart ‘er onions’ – a quart being a standard measure of beer or porter and they could never quite make out why onions had to be measured like this.
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Sir William Hamiltons Biography ... Hamilton is said to be a genius at a very early age. He learned many languages showing virtually no effort. By the age of five, William Hamilton started learning Latin and Greek, by the age of seven he was already speaking Hebrew. ... Hamilton is accredited as one of Ireland's famous scientists.
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; Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 3: "Sir William Rowan Hamilton"; Alexander MacFarlane ... and laying the blade gracefully and gently first on one shoulder, and then on the other, he said, ‘Rise up, Sir William Rowan Hamilton.’ The Knight rose, and the Lord Lieutenant then went...
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton was a famous mathematician and the inventor of quaternions. He was born at midnight on August 3/4, 1805 in Dublin, Ireland. He was considered as a born genius and his every discipline proved the saying. ... Life of William Rowan Hamilton ... Famous People From Dublin...
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