William Rowan Hamilton

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gptkbp:instanceOf mathematician
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Trinity_College_Dublin
gptkb:Royal_Irish_Academy
gptkb:University_of_Dublin
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Copley_Medal
Royal_Society_Fellow
gptkbp:born August 4, 1805
gptkbp:contribution theory of differential equations
development of optics
theory of algebraic geometry
theory of mathematical analysis
theory of mathematical logic
theory of mathematical physics
theory of mathematical philosophy
theory of determinants
theory of celestial mechanics
theory_of_algebraic_forms
gptkbp:died September 2, 1865
gptkbp:field physics
mathematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Rowan Hamilton
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:David_Hilbert
gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:James_Clerk_Maxwell
gptkb:Ernst_Mach
Niels Bohr
gptkbp:knownFor Hamiltonian mechanics
quaternions
gptkbp:nationality Irish
gptkbp:notableAlumni Hamiltonian dynamics
geometric algebra
canonical equations
gptkbp:work gptkb:The_Mathematical_Papers_of_Sir_William_Rowan_Hamilton
gptkb:The_Philosophy_of_the_Inductive_Sciences
gptkb:The_Life_and_Letters_of_Sir_William_Rowan_Hamilton
Theory of Conjugate Functions
Elements of Quaternions
Lectures on Quaternions
The Method of Quaternions
The_Dynamics_of_a_System_of_Rigid_Bodies
The_Theory_of_Systems_of_Rays