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The Influence of Irish Mathematicians on Modern Theoretical Physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

J. Riversdale Colthurst
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Extract

By a curious chronological coincidence, the tercentenary of Newton’s birth in 1642 is succeeded by the centenary of another outstanding event in the history of mathematics; the discovery of Quaternions in 1843 by Sir W. R. Hamilton. It seems a suitable occasion for drawing attention to the extent to which conceptions due to Irish mathematicians of that epoch are interwoven into the technique employed in recent developments in mathematical physics.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 27 , Issue 276 , October 1943 , pp. 166 - 170
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1943

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