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Events on Monday 16 October 1843 1
1843Hamilton discovers quaternionsFormula carved into Dublin's Brougham BridgeWhile walking along the Royal Canal in Dublin, William Rowan Hamilton worked out the basic formula for quaternions and carved it into the stone of Brougham Bridge. Quaternions extended complex numbers into four dimensions and are now used in physics and computer graphics.