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1827: Mathematics student William Rowan Hamilton presents his "Theory of Systems of Rays" at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The paper lays the foundation of modern optics, and it's only the first act in a distinguished career. Hamilton was the child prodigy offspring of a lawyer father and a mother who came from a family of scientists. He read English at age 3 and was translating Greek and ...
2009-04-22 11:08:46
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This week, I learned that April is national Math Awareness Month (or MAM, as my accountant would say). Who knew?
2009-04-23 01:06:39
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