William Rowan Hamilton - Commemorations of Hamilton

Commemorations of Hamilton

  • Hamilton's equations are a formulation of classical mechanics.
  • Numerous other concepts and objects in mechanics, such as Hamilton's principle, Hamilton's principal function, and the Hamilton–Jacobi equation, are named after Hamilton.
  • The Hamiltonian is the name of both a function (classical) and an operator (quantum) in physics, and, in a different sense, a term from graph theory.
  • The RCSI Hamilton Society was founded in his name in 2004.
  • The algebra of quaternions is usually denoted by H, or in blackboard bold by , in honour of Hamilton.

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