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I had a couple tweets this week that were fairly popular. The first was a pun on the musical Hamilton and the Hamiltonian from physics. The former is about Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and the latter is named after William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865).
Hamiltonian: The new Broadway hit about the sum of potential and kinetic energy. pic.twitter.com/PCJk3imDsq
- Differential Eqns (@diff_eq) May 11, 2016
The second was a sort of snowclone, a variation on the line from the Bhagavad Gita that J. Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted in reference to the atomic bomb:
"Now I am become Data, the destroyer of theories."
- John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) May 12, 2016