To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. This fourth and final volume of The Collected Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton ...

A HUNDRED years ago, on November 13, 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton read to the Royal Irish Academy his first paper on quaternions. The centenary is being celebrated by the Academy, and the ...

In 1843, William Rowan Hamilton had a four-dimensional flash of insight that still shapes our three-dimensional world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

On October 16 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin's Royal Canal.