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 solutions of new ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.46.1.43 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.46.1.43 We discuss a letter that Hamilton wrote a letter the day ...

The Royal Irish Academy, the academy for the sciences and humanities for the whole of Ireland will vigorously promote excellence in scholarship, recognise achievements in learning, direct research ...

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 ...

In May 1954, Cornelius Lanczos took up a position as senior professor in the School of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Dias). The institute had been established in ...

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 ...