What nationality was William Rowan Hamilton?
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Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1805. He is best known for his discovery of quaternions, a four-dimensional number system that extended the complex numbers. Hamilton's work in mathematics and physics had a profound impact on the development of both fields.
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