Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) [1] [2] was an Irish mathematician and physicist. He was Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin. Hamilton was the third director of Dunsink Observatory from 1827 to 1865.

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (born August 3/4, 1805, Dublin, Ireland—died September 2, 1865, Dublin) was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra—in particular, discovering the algebra of quaternions.

William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish astronomer and mathematician who discovered the quaternions. William Rowan Hamilton's father, Archibald Hamilton, did not have time to teach William as he was often away in England pursuing legal business.

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies in a simplified and elegant form called Hamilton's equations. He also made contributions in optics through a …

William Rowan Hamilton was one of the world's great mathematicians. Born at midnight on August 3/4, 1805, he spent his entire life in the environs of Dublin. Hamilton, a child prodigy, became Andrews Professor of Astronomy in Trinity College Dublin even before he had completed his undergraduate degree.

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) (Portrait of Hamilton from Enterprise Ireland Portrait Gallery, courtesy of Enterprise Ireland) The Life and Works of Hamilton. William Rowan Hamilton's Mathematical Papers; William Rowan Hamilton: Some Nineteenth Century Perspectives; Bibliographies; Hamilton's Mathematical Research. Geometrical Optics

2018年5月11日 · The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra. PhD diss., Cornell University , 1976. “Early Criticism of the Symbolical Approach to Algebra.”

William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) is considered to be one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and physicists. His life and work have been extensively described by others [1-4]. Hamilton was a child prodigy.

The Irish mathematician, physicist and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton, not to be confused with the Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856), was born in Dublin on August 3 or 4, 1805.

William Rowan Hamilton is one of the unsung heroes of modern physics and linear algebra, having introduced vectors, scalars and quaternions to the world. He also made major contributions to optics, classical mechanics and abstract algebra, as well as speaking a dozen languages by the time he was 13!