Tag: saint-simon

• Hamilton, the Quaternions, and Mathematical Mythologies

  

  The arduous discovery of the properties of the quaternions by William Rowan Hamilton has always stuck in my mind as among the most romantic of modern math’s encounters. Until the fall of 1843, Hamilton was set to work extending the complex numbers, by then a regular feature of the theory of equations. As he would…

  raanderson1995

  August 10, 2020

  Math, Nonfiction

  anarchism, dublin, gauss, history, klein, Math, quaternions, saint-simon