Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865)

(Portrait of Hamilton from Enterprise Ireland Portrait Gallery, courtesy of Enterprise Ireland)

The Life and Works of Hamilton

• William Rowan Hamilton's Mathematical Papers
• William Rowan Hamilton: Some Nineteenth Century Perspectives
• Bibliographies

Hamilton's Mathematical Research

• Geometrical Optics
• Discovery of Conical Refraction
• Dynamics
• Quaternions
• Geometry
• `Algebraic Couples' (Complex Numbers)
• Theory of Equations
• Real Analysis and `Fluctuating Functions'
• Linear Operators and the `Cayley-Hamilton Theorem'
• The `Icosian Calculus'

Other Material relating to Hamilton

• Lectures delivered by William Rowan Hamilton
• The Correspondence of William Rowan Hamilton
• Other Resources relating to Hamilton

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