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Irish mathematician and astronomer who developed the theory of quaternions, a landmark in the development of algebra,and discovered the phenomenon of conical refraction. His unification of dynamics and optics,moreover,has had alasting influence on mathematical physics, even though the full significance of his work was not fully appreciated until after the risd of quantum mechanics. Like his English contemporaries Thomas Babington Macaulay and John Stuart Mill,Hamilton showed
Irish mathematician and astronomer who developed the theory of quaternions, a landmark in the development of algebra, and discovered the phenomenon of conical refraction. His unification of dynamics and optics, moreover, has had alasting influence on mathematical physics, even though the full significance of His work was not fully charged until after the risd of quantum mechanics. Like his English contemporaries Thomas Babington, Macaulay and John Stuart Mill,