List of things named after George Airy explained

This is a list of things named after George Biddell Airy, a 19th-century 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]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Holthuijsen , Leo H. . 2007 . Waves in oceanic and coastal waters . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-86028-4 . Cambridge . 106.
2. Web site: Mars Nomenclature: Crater, craters . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . USGS: Astrogeology Research Program . 16 August 2007 .
3. Book: Morton, Oliver. Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World. Picador USA. New York. 2002. 0-312-24551-3. 22–23. registration.
4. Book: Cocks, E. E. . Cocks, J. C. . amp . 1995 . Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature . Tudor Publishers . 0-936389-27-3 .
5. Weisstein, Eric W. "Airy Projection." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AiryProjection.html
6. http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/articles.php?article=6 The Airy Transit Circle
7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/airy_george_01.shtml The Airy Transit Circle