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Three Letters on Broom Bridge

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Oct 16, 201710:53Science & Medicine

Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin to celebrate Ireland's greatest mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton. And get this – It was his act of vandalism on Broom Bridge in 1843 that put him in the history...

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