List of things named after George Airy

This is a list of things named after George Biddell Airy , a nineteenth-century English mathematician and astronomer.

Mathematics and related physics concepts

• 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

• 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]}

References

1. Holthuijsen, Leo H. (2007). Waves in oceanic and coastal waters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN   978-0-521-86028-4.
2. "Mars Nomenclature: Crater, craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS: Astrogeology Research Program. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Weisstein, Eric W. "Airy Projection." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AiryProjection.html
6. The Airy Transit Circle
7. The Airy Transit Circle, By Emily Winterburn, BBC. Last updated 17 February 2011