{"id":170,"date":"2013-11-25T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2018-03-02T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:34:14","slug":"william-rowan-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/the-enlightenment\/william-rowan-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowan Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish astronomer and mathematician who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra.\u00a0 His greatest contribution is probably the reformulation of Newtonian mechanics, now called Hamiltonian mechanics.\u00a0 This work has proven central to the modern study of classical field theories such as electromagnetism, and to the development of quantum mechanics.\u00a0 In mathematics, he is probably best known as the inventor of quaternions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Notable works in ARB\u2019s collection<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lectures on quaternions: containing a systematic statement of a new mathematical method (1853)<\/li>\n<li>The mathematical papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1931)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>For more works by William Rowan Hamilton click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uclid.uc.edu\/search\/X?SEARCH=%28william%20rowan%20hamilton%29&amp;searchscope=39&amp;SORT=D&amp;b=buar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish astronomer and mathematician who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra.\u00a0 His greatest contribution is probably the reformulation of Newtonian mechanics, now called Hamiltonian mechanics.\u00a0 This work has proven central to the modern study of classical field theories such as electromagnetism, and to the development of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish astronomer and mathematician who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra. 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