John Couch Adams
b. 1819 – d. 1892 · 5 books
Biography
British mathematician and astronomer. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics.
Books by John Couch Adams
Note on a remarkable property
Note on a remarkable property of the analytical expression for the constant term in the reciprocal of the moon's radius vector
On the motion of the moon's no
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
Note on the resolution of x ny
Note on the resolution of x ny + 1/x ny - 2 cos n alpha into factors
Reply to various objections which have been brought against his theory of the secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion
An explanation of the observed irregularities in the motion of Uranus