John T. Graves

John T. Graves

John Thomas Graves, Esq. (1806 - 1870) 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". [ [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/node1.html The octonions by John C. Baez] ] He was the brother of the mathematician Charles Graves. [cite book |title= Felix Klein and Sophus Lie|last= Yaglom|first=I.M. |authorlink=Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom |year= 1988|publisher= Birkhäuser |location= Boston|isbn=0817633162 |pages= 91]

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* [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3359&inst_id=13 Graves Scientific Papers] at University College London


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