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John James Walker

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His father was headmaster in the schools where he studied: London High School and Plymouth New Grammar School. As his family was of Irish descent, he went to study mathematics and physics to
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From 1853 to 1862 he was private tutor of the rich family
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Kennington
England
Hampstead
England
Trinity College Dublin
BA
MA
Fellow of the Royal Society
Mathematics
University College London
FRS
mathematician
London Mathematical Society
Trinity College Dublin
Guinness
University College London
Royal Society
algebra
quaternions
"Obituary"
doi
10.1098/rspl.1904.0163
ISSN
0370-1662
Robertson, Edmund F.
"John James Walker"
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews
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