Perplexingly Easy: Selected Correspondence between William Rowan Hamilton and Peter Guthrie Tait

by William Rowan Hamilton, Peter Guthrie Tait, David R. Wilkins (Editor)

Perplexingly Easy presents selected letters from the correspondence of Hamilton and Tait during the period from November 1858 to October 1859, critically edited by Wilkins. It offers mathematical historians and others fresh insights into the development of quaternions, and their physical applications, including conical refraction.

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First published June 1, 2005

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Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician...
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