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.