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	Podcast:		Transistor
	Episode:		Three Letters on Broom Bridge
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:10:53
	Publish Date:		2017-10-15 23:00:00
	Description:		Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin to celebrate Ireland's greatest mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton. And get this – It was his act of vandalism on Broom Bridge in 1843 that put him in the history books – it actually changed mathematics forever. Samuel Hanson brings us the story.
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