List of things named after George Airy

This is a list of things named after George Biddell Airy, a nineteenth-century English mathematician and astronomer.

Mathematics and related physics concepts

• Airy beam
• Airy condition
• Airy disc
• Airy differential equation
• Airy functions Ai(x) and Bi(x)
• Airy points.
• Airy stress functions
• Airy transform
• Airy wave theory.
• Airy zeta function

Astronomy and geosciences

• Airy–Heiskanen model, see "Airy hypothesis".
• Airy, a crater on Mars.
• Airy-0, another smaller crater, whose location within Airy, defines the prime meridian of that planet.
• Airy (lunar crater) named in his honour.
• Airy ellipsoid
• Airy hypothesis
• Airy Mean Time
• Airy projection
• Airy Transit Circle

Other

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