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#1365: "Ireland's Got A Hamilton Too"

Famous Mathematicians dot com

If you ever visit Ireland in October, you may see hundreds of people gather for a walk to a bridge in Dublin that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathematician. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll hear William Rowan Hamilton, who vandalized Broom Bridge with an equation…an equation which changed mathematics forever.  

We’ll also hear how virtual reality is being used to teach history, celebrate the teenager who game the world Frankenstein.

And we’ll spend an academic minute advocating for hosta. 

Bob has been a part of the WAMC family since 2001. He currently produces and hosts National Production's The Best Of Our Knowledge. Over the years, Bob has produced The Environment Show and The Health Show for National Productions and hosted weekend mornings on WAMC for a decade. In addition to producing TBOOK, he is currently a reporter and on air host at WUWF Public Radio at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.