description: Perplexingly Easy presents selected letters from the correspondence of Hamilton and Tait during the period from November 1858 to October 1859, critically edited by Wilkins. It offers mathematical historians and others fresh insights into the development of quaternions, and their physical applications, including conical refraction.
language: English
title: Perplexingly Easy: Selected Correspondence between William Rowan Hamilton and Peter Guthrie Tait
titlecomplete: Perplexingly Easy: Selected Correspondence between William Rowan Hamilton and Peter Guthrie Tait
publisher: Royal Irish Academy