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English: A plaque on Broom Bridge in Dublin, commemorating Hamilton's invention of w:quaternions

The plaque 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 = i j k = −1

& cut it on a stone of this bridge
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See also File:Broom bridge plaque.jpg.

Camera location53° 22′ 22.79″ N, 6° 18′ 00.05″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo


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53°22'22.789"N, 6°18'0.047"W

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current19:38, 1 January 2005Thumbnail for version as of 19:38, 1 January 2005250 × 179 (26 KB)SilverfishA plaque on Broom Bridge in Dublin, commemorating Hamilton's invention of Quaternions {{GFDL}}

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