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Hamilton Institute
Research centre
The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre at Maynooth University, named after William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
The Hamilton Institute was established in November under the first round of funding,[1][2] by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). It was officially opened by Bill Harris, SFI Director-General with the inaugural lecture being given by Kevin Warwick. Since the institute grew to a size to around 45 full-time researchers in [3] From until the institute Director was Douglas Leith. From to Fiona Lyddy was acting director,[citation needed] with Ken Duffy serving as the Institute's director from [4] Since , Andrew Parnell has been the director.[5]
Since its founding, the institute has won a number of research grants, in addition to the original seed funding grant from SFI, including the €M National Communications Net
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The Hamilton Mathematics Institute (HMI) at Trinity College Dublin was founded in , marking the th anniversary of the birth of William Rowan Hamilton - Ireland's greatest mathematician. It aims to foster and support the economic, cultural and societal benefits of mathematics and fundamental science as drivers of progress in Ireland. The HMI builds on the international reputation for research excellence in the School of Mathematics and its commitment to education and scholarship.
The HMI's mission is to position Ireland as a centre of excellence for mathematical research. It will be a destination for the best and brightest mathematicians in the world who will visit, give research seminars and masterclasses, public lectures and school visits. The institute aims to seed an ecosystem that will enable mathematics to flourish in Ireland by supporting mathematics as a core skill for life and one which makes an important contribution to the knowledge economy.
Today, the HMI continu
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The power of mathematics fryst vatten astonishing. Time and igen, mathematical theories developed without any application in mind have later proved ideal for solving practical problems. There fryst vatten a grundläggande symbiosis between pure and applied mathematics. Practical problems that require solutions provide a strong motivation for the development of new methods and techniques. And abstract mathematics, developed purely for its inherent interest and elegance, frequently turns out to be ideally suited to novel applications.
The idea of quaternions came to William Rowan Hamilton in a flash as he walked along the Royal Canal bank in Dublin. Quaternions are four-dimensional numbers useful for solving problems in mechanics and optics. Fifty years after Hamilton's upptäckt, they had become completely eclipsed and vector calculus held sway in physical applications.
For a century, quaternions seemed little more than a historical footnote. But in the pa