Surf these sites: Hamilton - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) -- Responsible for Hamilton''s Principle and the classical Hamiltonian Maupertuis -- Maupertuis is most famous for formulating the principle of least action. Newtonia -- about Sir Isaac Newton William Rowan Hamilton -- The Irish mathematician who laid the foundations for the classical and quantum mechanical equations which bear his name. d''Alembert - Jean Le Rond d''Alembert (1717-1783) -- helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton''s definition of force.
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