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English: William Rowan Hamilton Plaque Plaque on Broome Bridge on the Royal Canal commemorating William Rowan Hamilton's discovery. The plaque reads:
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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Object location53° 22′ 22.63″ N, 6° 17′ 59.7″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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25 February 2007

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