Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA, FRAS (3/4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor...

paths and cycles are named after William Rowan Hamilton, who invented the icosian game, now also known as Hamilton's puzzle, which involves finding a...

of Lagrangian mechanics that emerged in 1833. Introduced by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hamiltonian mechanics replaces (generalized) velocities q ˙ i {\displaystyle...

In linear algebra, the Cayley–Hamilton theorem (named after the mathematicians Arthur Cayley and William Rowan Hamilton) states that every square matrix...

In physics, the Hamilton–Jacobi equation, named after William Rowan Hamilton and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, is an alternative formulation of classical mechanics...

based on energy were developed by Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, William Rowan Hamilton and others, leading to the development of analytical mechanics (which...

English footballer Rowan Williams (born 1950), Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Woods, Australian film director William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish...

The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that provides necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality...

is a mathematical game invented in 1856 by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton. It involves finding a Hamiltonian cycle on a dodecahedron, a cycle...

mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. The algebra of quaternions is often denoted by H (for Hamilton),...

from the verb (i.e. versor = "the turner"). It was introduced by William Rowan Hamilton in the 1840s in the context of his quaternion theory. cis (mathematics)...

formulations of quantum theory. The Hamiltonian is named after William Rowan Hamilton, who developed a revolutionary reformulation of Newtonian mechanics...

simply as Hamilton Clan Hamilton, an ancient Scottish kindred Lewis Hamilton (born 1985), a British Formula One driver William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865)...

Robert Mallet, Bartholomew Lloyd, George Johnstone Stoney and William Rowan Hamilton. Notable faculty members and lecturers at the university included...

plaque reads: Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion...

was introduced in 1837 by the Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who called it ◁. (The unit vectors { i , j , k } {\displaystyle...

1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton. 1844: Hollow needle in syringe created by Francis Rynd. 1846: Seismology...

October each year. This is the anniversary of the day in 1843 when William Rowan Hamilton discovered the non-commutative algebraic system known as quaternions...

William Rowan Hamilton around 1831. It may be viewed as linking Huygens' principle of optics with Maupertuis' principle of mechanics. While Hamilton discovered...

and Ireland William Edwin Hamilton (1834–1902), son of William Rowan and publisher of his Elements of Quaternions (1866) William Hamilton (geologist)...

In physics, Hamilton's principle is William Rowan Hamilton's formulation of the principle of stationary action. It states that the dynamics of a physical...

Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1 May 1751 – 1 November 1834), christened Archibald Hamilton (sometimes referred to as Archibald Rowan Hamilton), was a founding...

son of the Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton and Lady Helen Maria Hamilton Bayly. William Edwin Hamilton was born at Dunsink Observatory, in...

physicist and mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, a Hamiltonian vector field is a geometric manifestation of Hamilton's equations in classical mechanics...

non-commutative algebraic structure discovered by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856. In modern terms, he gave a group presentation of the icosahedral...

named after William Broom, one of the directors of the Royal Canal Company. Broom Bridge is the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton, following a...

numbers. This article is about the ordinary biquaternions named by William Rowan Hamilton in 1844. Some of the more prominent proponents of these biquaternions...

named after William Rowan Hamilton: Cayley–Hamilton theorem Hamilton's equations Hamilton's principle Hamilton–Jacobi equation Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman...

both in an edition of Edgeworth's letters, and in the biography of William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish astronomer and mathematician, by Robert Perceval Graves...

18th and 19th centuries Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Leonhard Euler and William Rowan Hamilton would extend the theory of classical mechanics considerably. They...