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#OTD in 1843.
William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a 3D system of complex numbers.
Important precursors to this work included Euler's four-square identity (1748) & Olinde Rodrigues' parameterization of general rotations by 4 parameters (1840), but neither of these writers treated the four-parameter rotations as an algebra. Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered quaternions in 1819, but this work was not published until 1900.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaterni…
Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century by Macfarlane
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Klára Dán von Neumann died #OTD in 1963.
Hungarian mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. Klára made significant contributions to the world of programming, including work on the Monte Carlo method, ENIAC, and MANIAC I. She was introduced to a lot of her work through her husband, John von Neumann. via @wikipedia
Here is my summary blog post about my *Calculus Made Easy* project and where it stands now:
I made a post on my (rarely used) blog thinking about my pursuit of higher mathematics and about how/where to apply for grad schools. I would love some advice from those who have pursued their love for Mathematics and it's application in other fields in grad school! I have some concerns and I feel very stuck.
freddy.us/thoughts/2023/10/06/…
#Math #Mathematics #Mathstodon #Physics #ComputerScience #GradSchool #PhD #Theory #GetFediHired
Thinking About Grad School & Math (Help Wanted)
I have been wanting to apply for grad school for a long time, but as the mathematically obsessed person I am feels frozen trying to find direction and suitable programs to apply to.Frederick Morlock
I'm eqyo from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, I'm in my twenties and studying #mathematics & #computerscience. I am also: a semi-agnostic churchgoer ⛪, not exactly straight but still figuring things out 🏳️🌈, and very much into #classicalmusic 🎻.
(Expect the frequency of emojis and hashtags to drop drastically after this post)
I see myself posting about my life, about #philosophy & #politics, maybe about some #foss-related stuff...