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"Analytic, comprehensive, and ambitiously aimed at integrating all the facets of Hamilton's richly productive but troubled life." -- Science
The famous Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) is generally regarded as having been an unhappily married alcoholic. The aim of this essay is to show that, contrary to this widespread belief, Hamilton had a good marriage, that in fact large parts of his marriage were fairly happy. It is discussed where the idea of his marriage as having been an unhappy one came from, and it is shown that according to current standards he was by no means an alcoholic.
Features a biographical sketch of the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Notes that he discovered quaternions.
Prize-winning study traces the rise of the vector concept from the discovery of complex numbers through the systems of hypercomplex numbers to the final acceptance around 1910 of the modern system of vector analysis.