John Couch Adams
5 Jun 1819 – 21 Jan 1892
British mathematician and astronomer. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics.
Books
- Lectures on the Lunar Theory
- On the motion of the moon's node in the case when the orbits of the sun and moon are supposed to have no eccentricities, and when their mutual inclination is supposed to be indefinitely small
- Reply to various objections which have been brought against his theory of the secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion
- Lectures on the Lunar Theory
- Lectures on the lunar theory
- Note on the resolution of x ny + 1/x ny - 2 cos n alpha into factors
- The scientific papers
- Note on a remarkable property of the analytical expression for the constant term in the reciprocal of the moon's radius vector
- Lectures on the Lunar Theory
- An explanation of the observed irregularities in the motion of Uranus
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