Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Name: Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801869730
Price: 6050 KES
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ISBN: 9780801869730

by Thomas L. Hankins

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0801869730

ISBN-13 9780801869730

Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press

Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 25th, 2004

Print length 496 Pages

Weight 762 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.40 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military History of mathematics

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Hankins brings together the many aspects of Hamilton's life and work-from his significant contributions to mathematics, optics, and mechanics to his passion for metaphysics, poetry, and politics-fully portraying the brilliant man whose faith and idealism guided him in everything he did.

One of the most imaginative mathematicians of the nineteenth century, Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) changed the course of modern algebra with his discovery of quaternions in 1843. Although Hamilton's work was largely theoretical, his ideas came to have invaluable practical applications with the advent of quantum mechanics in the twentieth century. In this acclaimed biography, Thomas L. Hankins brings together the many aspects of Hamilton's life and work-from his significant contributions to mathematics, optics, and mechanics to his passion for metaphysics, poetry, and politics-fully portraying the brilliant man whose faith and idealism guided him in everything he did.

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