John T. Graves
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1806 – 1870
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Who was John T. Graves?
John Thomas Graves was an Irish jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. He was the brother of both the mathematician Charles Graves and the writer and clergyman Robert Perceval Graves.
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- Born
- 1806
Dublin - Also known as
- John Graves
- Profession
- Died
- 1870
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on July 23, 2013
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