Book ID: CBB000006535

William Rowan Hamilton: Portrait of a prodigy (1983)

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O'Donnell, Sean Tath (Author)


Boole Press


Publication Date: 1983
Physical Details: xvi + 224 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Nakane, Michiyo
Hankins, Thomas L.
Fraser, Craig G.
Anne van Weerden
Wilson, Nancy
Wepster, Steven
Journals
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Actes du ... Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
University College Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Algebra
Biographies
Mathematicians
Optics
Mathematical physics
People
Hamilton, William Rowan
Boole, George
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
Whittaker, Edmund Taylor
Stokes, George Gabriel
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Ireland
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