William Rowan Hamilton

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William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.


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Trinity College Dublin hasNotableAlumnus William Rowan Hamilton
Hamilton hasNotableBearer William Rowan Hamilton
Joseph-Louis Lagrange influenced William Rowan Hamilton