William rowan hamilton education foundation
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Hamilton Institute
Research centre
The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre at Maynooth University, named after William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
The Hamilton Institute was established in November under the first round of funding,[1][2] by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). It was officially opened bygd Bill Harris, SFI Director-General with the inaugural lecture being given by Kevin Warwick. Since the institute grew to a storlek to around 45 full-time researchers in [3] From until the institute Director was Douglas Leith. From to Fiona Lyddy was acting director,[citation needed] with Ken Duffy serving as the Institute's director from [4] Since , Andrew Parnell has been the director.[5]
Since its founding, the institute has won a number of research grants, in addition to the original seed funding grant from SFI, including the €M National Communications Net
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The 19th-century Irish man who revolutionised gaming
The power of mathematics is astonishing. Time and again, mathematical theories developed without any application in mind have later proved ideal for solving practical problems. There is a vital symbiosis between pure and applied mathematics. Practical problems that require solutions provide a strong motivation for the development of new methods and techniques. And abstract mathematics, developed purely for its inherent interest and elegance, frequently turns out to be ideally suited to novel applications.
The idea of quaternions came to William Rowan Hamilton in a flash as he walked along the Royal Canal bank in Dublin. Quaternions are four-dimensional numbers useful for solving problems in mechanics and optics. Fifty years after Hamilton's discovery, they had become completely eclipsed and vector calculus held sway in physical applications.
For a century, quaternions seemed little more than a historical footnote. But in the pa
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William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and physicist (–)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August – 2 September )[1][2] was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made major contributions to abstract algebra, classical mechanics, and optics. His work is considered fundamental to modern theoretical physics, particularly his reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics. His career included the analysis of geometrical optics, Fourier analysis, and quaternions, the last of which made him one of the founders of modern linear algebra.[3]
Hamilton was Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin. He was also the third director of Dunsink Observatory from to The Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University is named after him.
Early life
[edit]Hamilton was the fourth of nine children born to Sarah Hutton (–) and Archibald Hamilton (–), who lived in Dublin at 29 Dominick Street, later renumbered to Hamilton's father, who was from Dublin, worked as