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The 200th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth seems to be a good time to recall one of the most interesting and best documented associations between an outstanding poet and a major scientist. The Irish mathematician Hamilton and the English poet Wordsworth were friends and correspondents for more than twenty years. Each helped to mould the ideas of the other significantly.
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DODD, G. Wordsworth and Hamilton. Nature 228, 1261–1263 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2281261a0
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