哈密尔顿是爱尔兰著名数学家和物理学家.32岁就被任命为爱尔兰皇家科学院院长.1863年,新成立的美国科学院任命他为14个外国院士之一.哈密尔顿的研究领域非常广泛.其研究的光学是几何光学,具有数学性质;力学则是列出动力方程求解,因此他主要是数学家.但他对科学史的影响却主要体 Hamilton is a famous Irish mathematician and physicist. He was appointed as the President of the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences at the age of 32. In 1863, the newly established American Academy of Sciences appointed him as one of 14 foreign academicians. Hamilton has a very wide research field. His research The optics is geometrical optics and has mathematical properties; the mechanics are motor equations, so he is mainly a mathematician. But his influence on the history of science is mainly