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The brilliant Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton found the mixture of arithmetical-algebraic aspects and the geometric visualisation of complex numbers highly unsatisfactory. He therefore described the algebraic structure of complex numbers as two-dimensional objects and generalised this to the four-dimensional quaternions.

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William Rowan Hamilton—An Unhappy Genius from Ireland

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    2026年

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  • Heinz Klaus Strick

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The brilliant Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton found the mixture of arithmetical-algebraic aspects and the geometric visualisation of complex numbers highly unsatisfactory. He therefore described the algebraic structure of complex numbers as two-dimensional objects and generalised this to the four-dimensional quaternions.