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William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer1805 to 1865

Wikidata names John Brinkley as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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known as: mathematician, physicist, astronomer, university teacher, theoretical physicist
fields: mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, physics, mathematical physics, optics, quaternion
degrees: Bachelor of Arts, 1827, Master of Arts, 1837
awards: Royal Medal, 1835, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1864, Cunningham Medal, 1834
member of: Royal Society of London, National Academy of Sciences, from 1864, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from 1837, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, from 1839, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1841, Russian Academy of Sciences
notable works: Hamilton's principle, On the osculating twisted cubic to a curve of double curvature, VIII. <i>Second theorem of algebraic elimination, connected with the question of the possibility of resolving, in finite terms, equations of the Fifth degree</i>, XCI. <i>Theorem respecting algebraic elimination, connected with the question of the possibility of resolving in finite terms the general equation of the fifth degree</i>. Extracted by permission, from a communication recently made to the Royal Iris, quaternion, Hamiltonian mechanics, Hamiltonian path
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