Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
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Philosopher & math theorist Imre Lakatos credits von Seidel with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence, while analyzing an incorrect proof put forth earlier by Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
In 1857, von Seidel contributed to the field of optics when he decomposed the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations. They are now commonly referred to as the five Seidel Aberrations.
The lunar crater Seidel is named after him. His doctoral students include Eduard Study and Hermann Wiener.
The Gauss–Seidel method is a useful numerical iterative method for solving linear systems. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1898