London, George Barclay, 1847. Contemporary half cloth. Sm. 8vo. 16 pp. Library stamps on titlepage.
Reference : 39274
First edition. Offprint from the Annual Report of the Royal Astronomical Society. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 - 17 March 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and astronomer. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named in his honour.
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