When1: 1850
When2: 1856
Who: William R. Hamilton [Hamilton, William R.]
What: mathematician
Where: Ireland/Scotland
works\ Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic [1869]
Detail: He lived 1788 to 1856 and belonged to school of intuition. He invented quaternions and Cayley-Hamilton theorem. He studied non-commutative algebras. His student was H.L. Mansel. People can know the finite, but people know the rest by faith, based on Kant.
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