John T. Graves

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John Thomas Graves, Esq. (1806 - 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 and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves.[1] He was the brother of the mathematician Charles Graves.[2]

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  1. ^ The octonions by John C. Baez
  2. ^ Yaglom, I.M. (1988). Felix Klein and Sophus Lie. Boston: Birkhäuser, 91. ISBN 0817633162. 

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