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Winnebago War, Black Hawk War. William Stephen Hamilton (August 4, 1797 – October 9, 1850), a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, was an American politician and miner who lived much of his life in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory. Hamilton was born in New York, where he attended the United States ...
Biography William Rowan Hamilton's father, Archibald Hamilton, did not have time to teach William as he was often away in England pursuing legal business. Archibald Hamilton had not had a university education and it is thought that Hamilton's genius came from his mother, Sarah Hutton.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (born August 3/4, 1805, Dublin, Ireland—died September 2, 1865, Dublin) was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra —in particular, discovering the algebra of quaternions. His work proved significant for the development of quantum mechanics.
Childhood & Early Life. William Rowan Hamilton was born in Dublin, Ireland, on August 4, 1805. His father was a solicitor named Archibald Hamilton and his mother was Sarah Hutton. He was the fourth child of the nine children born into the family. When he was around two years old he was put under the care of his uncle Reverend James Hamilton who ...
Sir William Rowan Hamilton FRAS MRIA PRIA (3/4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) [1] [2] was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, living at Dunsink Observatory . Hamilton was Dunsink's third director, having worked there from 1827 ...
Aug 3, 2005 · This year Ireland celebrates the bicentenary of the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, best remembered for "quaternions" and for his pioneering work on optics and dynamics. Picture of genius. William Rowan Hamilton was born in Dublin at midnight between the 3rd and 4th of August 1805. His father, Archibald Hamilton, was a solicitor, and his ...
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Muldoon's book, Alexander Hamilton's Pioneer Son, the Life and Times of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, 1797-1850, skirts Hamilton's Illinois activities and is not, on the whole, a scholarly work even though Muldoon devoted considerable time to it. Dr. Burton and I agreed that the gaps and the undocumented statements in the Muldoon biography provided me with sufficient working opportunity ...
