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William Rowan Hamilton: From Prodigy In Language To Prodigy…

You must have heard about the Cayley–Hamilton theorem and quaternions. What if someone tells you that the person behind these was prominent in classical and modern European languages, Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Hindustani, Sanskrit, Marathi, and Malay, before 13. Sir William Rowan Hamilton is the person behind these, a child prodigy of his time that faced ...