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George Biddell Airy

The life of George Biddell Airy - The Bureaucrat Who Organized The Stars


Airy Equation

A differential equation describing the intensity of light near a caustic.

\[ y'' - xy = 0 \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Airy/

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