Arthur W. Conway went to which school before Dec 1888?
Arthur W . Conway Arthur William Conway FRS ( 2 October 1875 – 11 July 1950 ) was a distinguished Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist who wrote one of the first books on relativity and co-edited two volumes of William Rowan Hamiltons collected works . He also served as President of University College Dublin between 1940 and 1947 . Life and career . Born in Wexford , he received his early education in St Peters College , Wexford and proceeded to enter old University College , Dublin in 1892 . He received his BA degree from the Royal University of Ireland in 1896 with honours in Latin , English , Mathematics and Natural Philosophy . In 1897 , he received his MA degree with highest honours in mathematics and proceeded to Corpus Christi College , Oxford , becoming University Scholar there in 1898 , and studying under Augustus Love . Also in 1901 , he was appointed to the professorship of Mathematical Physics in the old University College and held the Chair until the creation of the new college in 1909 . He also taught for a short time at St . Patricks College , Maynooth . He married Agnes Christina Bingham on 19 August 1903 ; they had three daughters and one son . One of Conways students was Éamon de Valera , whom he introduced to Hamiltons quaternions . De Valera warmed to the subject and engaged in research of this novelty of abstract algebra . Later , when de Valera became Taoiseach ( he was also subsequently President of Ireland ) , he called upon Conway while forming the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies . Conways earliest publications , dating back to 1903 , were on the electromagnetic theory . He is remembered for his application of biquaternion algebra to the special theory of relativity , and in 1915 published a 43-page tract Relativity in Edinburgh . He published an article in 1911 , and in 1912 asserted priority over Ludwik Silberstein , who also applied biquaternions to relativity . This claim was backed up by George Temple in his book 100 Years of Mathematics . In 1947 Conway put quaternions to use with rotations in hyperbolic space . The next year he published quantum mechanics applications which were referred to in a PhD thesis by J . Lambek in 1950 . In 1918 , he was the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate in South Londonderry and in the National University of Ireland , coming second in both . Arthur Conway continued his scholarship in the fields of mathematics and theoretical physics , and made a special study of William Rowan Hamilton . With J . L . Synge , he edited the first volume of Hamiltons mathematical papers and with A . J . McConnell he edited the second volume of Hamiltons mathematical papers . Conway was also active in college life , being appointed Registrar , a position he occupied until his election as president in 1940 . He retired in 1947 from the presidency of UCD . In 1953 , some of his writings were edited by J . McConnell for publication by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies . He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Toronto in 1924 , in 1932 in Zurich , and in 1936 in Oslo . He was elected President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1937 to 1940 . In October 1975 , to mark the centenary of his birth , UCD hosted the AC Conway Memorial Mathematical Symposium . Speakers included Roger Penrose , Ian Sneddon , and William B . Bonnor . In his obituary , E.T . Whittaker referred to Conway as the most distinguished Irish Catholic man of science of his generation . Books . - 1915 : Relativity , G . Bell & Sons ( Edinburgh Mathematical Tracts No . 3 ) via Internet Archive - 1931 : The Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton : Volume 1 , Geometrical Optics , Cambridge ( edited with J L Synge ) - 1940 : The Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton : Volume 2 , Dynamics , Cambridge ( edited with J L Synge )