Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton Robert Stawell Ball (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545081235)

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became a professor of astronomy at University of Dublin, however he was more interested in theoretical rather than practical astronomy. 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.

Author: Paula Benitez,Robert Stawell Ball
ISBN-10: 1545081239
ISBN-13: 9781545081235
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 26
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d