HAMILTON, William Rowan (1805-1865). Lectures on quaternions: containing a systematic statement of a new mathematical method; . Dublin: Hodges & Smith; London: Whittaker & Co.; Cambridge: Macmillan, 1853. 8 o (222 x 143 mm). Text diagrams. Original plum blind-stamped cloth (faded, some wear). Provenance : Rev. H.F.C. Logan (author's inscription on title "The Rev. H.F.C. Logan, D.D. from the author. Observatory, October 17th, 1859", ownership signature); James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848-1928), mathematical astronomer (ownership inscription on front pastedown "Given me by Dr. Logan 1881, June 1", bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Hamilton's major contribution to mathematics, quaternions, the linear algebra of rotations in space of three dimensions, came to him in a flash of inspiration on 16 October 1843, after 22 years spent searching for a system of expressing hypercomplex numbers that would give a "natural" algebraic representation of three-dimensional space. Hamilton's quaternions were important in the development of later noncommutative algebra such as matrices and vector analysis. PMM 334; Norman 985.
HAMILTON, William Rowan (1805-1865). Lectures on quaternions: containing a systematic statement of a new mathematical method; . Dublin: Hodges & Smith; London: Whittaker & Co.; Cambridge: Macmillan, 1853. 8 o (222 x 143 mm). Text diagrams. Original plum blind-stamped cloth (faded, some wear). Provenance : Rev. H.F.C. Logan (author's inscription on title "The Rev. H.F.C. Logan, D.D. from the author. Observatory, October 17th, 1859", ownership signature); James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848-1928), mathematical astronomer (ownership inscription on front pastedown "Given me by Dr. Logan 1881, June 1", bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Hamilton's major contribution to mathematics, quaternions, the linear algebra of rotations in space of three dimensions, came to him in a flash of inspiration on 16 October 1843, after 22 years spent searching for a system of expressing hypercomplex numbers that would give a "natural" algebraic representation of three-dimensional space. Hamilton's quaternions were important in the development of later noncommutative algebra such as matrices and vector analysis. PMM 334; Norman 985.
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