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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