Gulielmus Rowan Hamilton

Gulielmus Rowan Hamilton eques (Dublini natus 3 Augusti 1805; ibidem mortuus 2 Septembris 1865^[1]) fuit mathematicus, professor astronomiae Andrewsianus apud Collegium Trinitatis iuxta Dublinum, et regalis astronomus Hiberniae. Operam ambabus mathematicae purae et mathematicae pro physica dedit. Inventa magni momenti in optica, mechanica classica, algebraque fecit. Quamquam physicus non erat (se quidem mathematicum aestimabat purum), eius opera gravissima in historia physicae sunt, praecipue eius correctio mechanicae Newtonianae, nunc mechanica Hamiltoniana appellata. Quod opus fundamentis in hodiernis theoriarum classicarum investigationibus prodest, ut in electromagnetismo atque in evolutione mechanicae quanticae. In mathematica pura, numeris quaterniis inventis et matrice inventa innotuit.

Opera

Hamilton, W. R. 1833. "Introductory Lecture on Astronomy." Dublin University Review and Quarterly Magazine (Dublini: Trinity College), 1.
Hamilton, Sir W. R. 1853. Lectures on Quaternions. Dublini: Hodges and Smith.
Hamilton, Sir W. R. 1866. Elements of Quaternions, ed. W. E. Hamilton. Londinii: Longmans, Green, & Co.
Wilkins, David R. "Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865): Mathematical Papers."

Bedford, A. 1985. Hamilton's principle in continuum mechanics. Bostoniae: Pitman Advanced Publishing Program. ISBN 0273087304.
Chow, Tai L. 2013. "Chaper 5: Hamilton Formulation of Mechanics: Description of Motion in Phase Spaces." In Classical Mechanics. CRC Press, ISBN 9781466569980.
Graves, Robert Perceval. 1975. Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. 3 vol (1882, 1885, 1889). Novi Eboraci: Arno Press. ISBN 0405065949.
Hamilton, William Rowan. 1899, 1901. Elements of quaternions. 2 vol., ed. Charles Jasper Joly. Londinii et Novi Eboraci: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Hankins, Thomas L. 1980. Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Baltimorae: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-2203-2.
Lambek, J. 1995. "If Hamilton had prevailed: quaternions in physics." Mathematical Intelligencer 17 (4): 7–15.
McGovern, Iggy. 2013. A mystic dream of 4: a sonnet sequence based on the life of William Rowan Hamilton. Dublini: Quaternia Press. ISBN 9780992629403, ISBN 9780992629410.
O'Donnell, Seán. 1983. William Rowan Hamilton: portrait of a prodigy. Dublini: Boole Press. ISBN 0906783062.
Synge, J. L. 1937. Geometrical optics: an introduction to Hamilton's Method. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press.
Synge, J. L. 1944. "The life and early work of Sir William Rowan Hamilton." Scripta Mathematica 10: 13–24.