List of things named after George Airy
This is a list of things named after George Biddell Airy, a 19th-century mathematician and astronomer.
Mathematics and related physics concepts
[edit]- Airy beam
- Airy condition
- Airy disc
- Airy distribution
- Airy differential equation
- Airy functions Ai(x) and Bi(x)
- Airy points.
- Airy stress functions
- Airy transform
- Airy wave theory.[1]
- Airy zeta function
Astronomy and geosciences
[edit]- Airy–Heiskanen model, see "Airy hypothesis".
- Airy, a crater on Mars.[2]
- Airy-0, another smaller crater, whose location within Airy, defines the prime meridian of that planet.[3]
- Airy (lunar crater) named in his honour.[4]
- Airy ellipsoid
- Airy hypothesis
- Airy Mean Time
- Airy projection[5]
- Airy Transit Circle[6][7]
Other
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Holthuijsen, Leo H. (2007). Waves in oceanic and coastal waters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-521-86028-4.
- ^ "Mars Nomenclature: Crater, craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS: Astrogeology Research Program. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
- ^ Morton, Oliver (2002). Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World. New York: Picador USA. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-312-24551-3.
- ^ Cocks, E. E. & Cocks, J. C. (1995). Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature. Tudor Publishers. ISBN 0-936389-27-3.
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Airy Projection." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AiryProjection.html
- ^ The Airy Transit Circle
- ^ The Airy Transit Circle, By Emily Winterburn, BBC. Last updated 2011-02-17