Trinity College Dublin to remember former student with conference taking place this week
died in 1865 but his work remains critical for many scientists today, such as space flight engineers, protein biologists and artificial intelligence researchers.
Rowan Hamilton was a student at the college from the age of 15 and kept strong links to it throughout his working life. On Thursday, Prof Nigel Hitchen of Oxford University will give a public lecture on his life story and discoveries.Conor McGregor appeal against civil jury’s rape finding due before Court of Appeal this monthA lot has been written about Hamilton’s greatest discovery, the quaternion equations which described the relative movement of objects in 3D space in four dimensions.
These equations solved a problem he had been mulling over for years: how could one best describe how objects moved in the three-dimensional space we all inhabit? He became so excited that he etched the equation into the stone of nearby Broom Bridge, an act that is now famous in mathematical history.
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