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 ...

THE year 1844 is memorable in the annals of mathematics on account of the first appearance on the printed page of Hamilton's “Quaternions” and Grassmann's “Ausdehnungslehre.” The former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...