Although his wife talked to him now and again Hamilton hardly heard, for the discovery of the quaternions, the first noncommutative algebra to be studied, was taking shape in his mind:
Kahit na ang kanyang asawa nakipag-usap sa kanya ngayon at muli Hamilton bahagya narinig, para sa pagkatuklas ng quaternions, ang unang noncommutative algebra na-aral, ay dinadala ng hugis sa kanyang isip: