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William Rowan Hamilton — A Capella Science, et al

Based on “Alexander Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda

CAYLEY (Derek Muller)

How does the plastered

Fourth-born

Son of a law man in Dublin

Dubbed an impressive polyglot young’un

Wunderkind embarrassed in a contest with a prodigious Vermonter

Obtain Irish science’s highest honour?

LAGRANGE (Tom McFadden)

The math scholar

Chief astronomer alcoholic

Burned a lot stronger

By working a lot longer

By starting a lot younger

By being a savant and by thirteen

Knew more languages than the Holy Father

EULER (Coma Niddy)

And every day while knaves were playing soccer and ogling babes

Lost in the page he studied

And built his knowledge

At eighteen had gotten a spot at Trinity College

The brother had mathematical skills set to astonish

BRINKLEY (Hood Skalas)

Then a shot at love came but

Devastation reigned

Our man saw his Catherine take another name

The depression told him end it

He fended it from his brain

Then he wrote his first refrain

A testament to his pain

WORDSWORTH (Tom Zalatnai)

William Wordsworth, his pal, said

This verse is just okay man

Stick to mathematics and you’ll never be a layman

Do your calculation

Stake kinetics as your claim

And the world’s gonna know your name

What’s your name man?

HAMILTON (Tim Blais)

William Rowan Hamilton

My name is William Rowan Hamilton

And no one uses my quaternions

But just you wait

Just you wait

NOETHER (Helen Arney)

He tried extending the complex

Found the next step fickle

His kids would ask him “daddy can you multiply triples”

“Not yet

I can only subtract and add back”

COMPANY

(He’d wedded one Helen but the heat of love lacked)

AIRY (Simon Clark)

Meanwhile he’d adopted an optimization view of light

Following optics it drew him right

To a new insight

A path to dynamics

No thought to habits or health

He started computin’ what Newton

Never managed to himself

SCHRĂ–DINGER (Hank Green)

A beautiful and symmetric view

Of matched momentum choosing

Minimal action as his route

But missing Catherine made him droop

He started drinking

Slinking to his office

Getting rip-roared

Turning back to triplet

Manipulation with no reward

JACOBI (Baba Brinkman)

Strolling with Helen

When new inspiration calls him

Add another letter

See him now as he scrawls in the stone of a bridge

Like a revolution

ijk equals negative 1

COMPANY & HAMILTON

Where i-squared equals negative one (i-j-k)

And j-squared equals negative one (i-j-k)

And k-squared equals negative one (i-j-k)

Which equals (equals)

HAMILTON

I-J-K!!

COMPANY

William Rowan Hamilton!

We are waiting on the bounds for you

Cause your energy function generates the flow of

Time

Oh, William Rowan Hamilton

Operators that Lie commute

With the symbol that bears your name

Hold their own and oppose the grain

Conserved, they’ll always be the same

AIRY

His versors form hypersphere

See if you can plot ’em

CAYLEY

Invented vectors and scalars

For when you dot ’em

WORDSWORTH

The alcohol destroyed his health

And gout it finally got him

EULER & LAGRANGE

We grounded him

WORDSWORTH & BRINKLEY

Me, I counselled him

CAYLEY & AIRY

Me, I worked with him

NOETHER & JACOBI

We revamped him

SCHRĂ–DINGER

And me?

I adapted him for quantum

COMPANY

He’ll make all physics Hamiltonian

Just you wait!

EULER

What’s your name man?

WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON!