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Friedrich Bessel

German astronomer and mathematician

Died when: 61 years 238 days (739 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Friedrich Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German: [ˈbɛsl̩]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist.He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax.

A special type of mathematical functions were named Bessel functions after Bessel's death, though they had originally been discovered by Daniel Bernoulli and then generalised by Bessel.


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