List of things named after Friedrich Bessel
Appearance
This is a (partial) list of things named for Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, a 19th-century German scholar who worked in astronomy, geodesy and mathematical sciences:
Astronomy, geodesy, astronomical bodies
[edit]- 1552 Bessel
- Bessel's star; see 61 Cygni
- Bessel (crater)
- Bessel ellipsoid
- Besselian elements
- Besselian epoch
- Bessel points
- Repsoid–Bessel pendulum
Mathematics
[edit]- Bessel's correction
- Bessel's differential equation
- Bessel's inequality
- Bessel potential
- Bessel potential spaces
- Bessel process