Inscription_on_Broom_Bridge_(Dublin)_regarding_the_discovery_of_Quaternions_multiplication_by_Sir_William_Rowan_Hamilton.jpg


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English: The inscription says: 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 multiplication

i²=j²=k²=ijk=-1

& cut it on a stone of this bridge
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Inscription under Broom Bridge (Dublin)

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16 December 2017