• Three Letters on Broom Bridge

  • Oct 16 2017
  • Length: 11 mins
  • Podcast

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Three Letters on Broom Bridge

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  • Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin to celebrate Ireland's greatest mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton. And get this – It was his act of vandalism on Broom Bridge in 1843 that put him in the history books – it actually changed mathematics forever. Samuel Hanson brings us the story.

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