A HUNDRED years ago, on November 13, 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton read to the Royal Irish Academy his first paper on quaternions. The centenary is being celebrated by the Academy, and the ...

JUST as “one shove of the bayonet” was truly said to be more effective than any number of learned discussions on the art of war:— this really practical work, giving genuine quaternion ...

AcadiaSoft, an industry provider of risk and collateral management services for the derivatives community, has acquired capital markets consulting and software company Quaternion. According to ...

We discuss a letter that Hamilton wrote a letter the day after he discovered quaternions. Describing what led to his discovery, it gives a valuable insight into the deliberations of a great ...

P. Weiss, On Some Applications of Quaternions to Restricted Relativity and Classical Radiation Theory, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 46 ...

Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers, on October 16, 1843. Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues had ...

An early link with Ireland was his use in his doctoral dissertation of quaternion calculus. Quaternions had been invented by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.

The annual Hamilton Quaternion Walk along the Royal Canal takes place this year on Sunday October 16th. The leisurely 5km walk celebrates the work of Ireland's greatest scientist, William Rowan ...