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From: Jesse F. Hughes on 18 Mar 2010 08:39
Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes(a)gmail.com> writes:

> And alot of source reading such as Wikipedia fail to even mention
> that Hamilton was a math genius, for he had math abilities far
> beyond most people of his day and era.

What makes you think this?
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From: Deadrat on 23 Mar 2010 14:33
Jeffrey Turner <jturner(a)localnet.com> wrote in news:fJKdnc-
wcYMsbDXWnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d(a)posted.localnet:

> Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
>
>>
>> And alot of source reading such as Wikipedia fail to even mention that
>> Hamilton was
>> a math genius, for he had math abilities far beyond most people of his
>> day and era.
>
> Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805 � 2 September 1865) was an
> Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, who made important
> contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra. His studies
> of mechanical and optical systems led him to discover new mathematical
> concepts and techniques. His greatest contribution is perhaps the
> reformulation of Newtonian mechanics, now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
> This work has proven central to the modern study of classical field
> theories such as electromagnetism, and to the development of quantum
> mechanics. In mathematics, he is perhaps best known as the inventor of
> quaternions. Hamilton is said to have shown immense talent at a very
> early age, prompting astronomer Bishop Dr. John Brinkley to remark in
> 1823 of Hamilton at the age of eighteen: �This young man, I do not say
> will be, but is, the first mathematician of his age.�
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton

But his greatest talent, according to AP, was to have influenced the
writing of the Constitution although he was born in 1805.
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