John Thomas Graves (4 December 1806 to 29 March 1870) was an Irish jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions in October 1843 and with then discovering their generalization, the octonions, himself later that same year, which he called octaves. Born in Dublin, he was a brother of the mathematician and bishop Charles Graves and of the writer and clergyman Robert Perceval Graves. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, where he distinguished himself in science and classics and graduated B.A. in 1827, and he was called to the English bar in 1831.
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He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions in October 1843 and then discovering their generalization the octonions himself (he called them octaves) later that same year.
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The octonions were discovered in December 1843 by John T. Graves, inspired by his friend William Rowan Hamilton's discovery of quaternions.
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The octonions were discovered in December 1843 by John T. Graves, inspired by his friend William Rowan Hamilton's discovery of quaternions.
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