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Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton developed a powerful new mathematical method in the 1820s. This method connected the paths of light rays and physical objects, foreshadowing the strange behavior of matter and light.

William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician and physicist born 220 years ago. He is often remembered for carving a key mathematical formula into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843. However, his reputation during his lifetime was built on work he completed much earlier. In the 1820s and early 1830s, while still in his twenties, Hamilton created powerful new mathematical methods for analyzing the paths of light rays (or

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Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton developed a powerful new mathematical method in the 1820s. This method connected the paths of light rays and physical objects, foreshadowing the strange behavior of matter and light.