William Rowan Hamilton's guest appearances

William Rowan Hamilton

Complete

The Beatles

Readings, talks and workshops at Dublin City Public Libraries

Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century

This Day In Education

Bill Gates

Christopher Columbus

John Gray

John Boyne

John Dewey

R.L. Stine

Kevin Barry

Akhil Sharma

William Faulkner

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rachel Carson

Michael Russell

Carl Sagan

Joe Joyce

Stephen Smith

OwlTail

It’s October 16th, and on this day in 1843, the fundamental formula for quaternions was first written. Irish mathematician, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, while walking with his wife in Dublin, was struck by the formula that would revolutionize the study of dynamic systems. Excited, lacking paper, and not wanting to forget his stroke of genius– he carved the formula for quaternions into the stonework of Broome Bridge. Where it remains to this day. 

<p>It’s October 16th, and on this day in 1843, the fundamental formula for quaternions was first written. Irish mathematician, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, while walking with his wife in Dublin, was struck by the formula that would revolutionize the study of dynamic systems. Excited, lacking paper, and not wanting to forget his stroke of genius– he carved the formula for quaternions <em>into the stonework</em> of Broome Bridge. Where it remains to this day. </p>

10.16 - Quaternions number system created by Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Iggy McGovern

Paula Murphy

Noel Duffy

The life of 19th century mathematician and poet, William Rowan Hamilton, told through a sequence of sonnets by poet Iggy McGovern and friends Paula Murphy and Noel Duffy. Pearse Street Library on Thursday, 26 February 2015

A mystic dream of 4: a sonnet sequence based on the life of William Rowan Hamilton. Reading by Iggy McGovern, Paula Murphy and Noel Duffy

Chapter 3: "Sir William Rowan Hamilton"