Mathematician:Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
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Mathematician
Prussian mathematician best known for making a systematic study of what is now known as Bessel's equation.
Nationality
Prussian
History
- Born: 22 July 1784, Minden, Westphalia (now Germany)
- Died: 17 March 1846, Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Theorems and Definitions
- Bessel Functions:
- Bessel Function of the First Kind
- Bessel Function of the Second Kind (also known as Neumann function, for Carl Gottfried Neumann)
- Bessel Function of the Third Kind (also known as Hankel function, for Hermann Hankel)
- Bessel-Clifford Function (with William Kingdon Clifford)
- Bessel Polynomials and Reverse Bessel Polynomials
- Fourier-Bessel Series (with Joseph Fourier)
Results named for Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel can be found here.
Publications
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1946: F.E. Relton: Applied Bessel Functions ... (next): Preface
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846)
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846)