Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
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Philipp Ludwig von Seidel [zah'edəl] (October 24, 1821 Zweibrücken, Germany – August 13, 1896, Munich) was a German mathematician.
Lakatos credits Seidel with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence, while analyzing an incorrect proof of Cauchy's.[1]
In 1857, von Seidel decomposed the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations. They are now commonly referred to as the five Seidel Aberrations.
There is a lunar crater named after him.
The Gauss–Seidel method is a useful numerical iterative method for solving linear systems.
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- ^ Latakos, Imre (1976). Proofs and Refutations. Cambridge University Press, 141.
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