Re: [HM] Information on Graves and Ku"hn

Martin Muldoon (muldoon@pascal.math.yorku.ca)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:17:44 -0400 (EDT)

Both John Thomas Graves (1806-1870) "jurist and mathematician" and Charles
Graves (1812-1899) "bishop of Limerick and mathematician" get nearly two
pages each in the (British) Dictionary of National Biography, the first
in the initial set of volumes covering the 19th c, the second in the
supplement to that set. The third brother Robert Graves, Hamilton's
biographer, whom you asked about recently, seems otherwise much less
well-known.
Martin

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Dominique Flament wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> Il 's'agit d'informations requises concernant:
>
> Heinrich KUEHN, auteur entre autre de l'article "Meditationes de
> quantitatibus imaginariis construendis et radicibus imaginariis exhibendis,
> "Me'moire de l'Acad. Saint Petersbourg" (Novi commentarii, III), 1751;
>
> et
>
> des fre\res John T. Graves et Charles Graves, tous les deux mathe'maticiens
> un temps engage's dans des recherches sur les "alge\bres triples" (triplets)
> et "multiples", etc., des recherches qui les ameneront a\ correspondre
> avec notre cher William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), entre autre le pe\re de
> la the'orie des "couples alge'briques" et des "quaternions"
>
> Looking forward to your answers
> Thank you in advance
>
> Dominique
>
>
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