*Hallo Mr Kevin O'Connor, * *Salutations !!
* *Here is one of your countrymen, one of the greatest Irish, ever. * * Dublin: **Sir Hamilton, William Rowan, (1805-1865), Ireland's greatest Mathematician.* This Irishman, W R Hamilton, from Dublin, was very much ahead of his time. Except that he was always perpetually drunk. His work totally subsumes that of Isaac Newton. * Below is the Broome Bridge, Dublin, where he carved the quaternions** equations.* *Even on this occasion he was **totally drunk**.* *On 16 October 1843* Hamilton was out walking along the Royal canal in Dublin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin> with his wife when the solution in the form of the equation suddenly occurred to him; Hamilton then promptly carved this equation using his penknife into the side of the nearby Broome Bridge<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broome_Bridge&action=edit&redlink=1>(which Hamilton called Brougham Bridge). *See bottom-right below * * Drawing of Brougham Bridge on the Royal Canal, where Hamilton inscribed the famous formula for his Quaternions. *
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