Person: Graves, John T

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John Graves was an Irish lawyer and mathematician who is credited with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 4 December 1806, Dublin, Ireland. Died 29 March 1870, Cheltenham, England.

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Origin Ireland


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References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive