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John Couch Adams. John Couch Adams rechazó el título de caballero. Dicho honor le fue otorgado por la Reina Victoria. Ella quería reconocer a Adams por sus logros. John Couch Adams nació en Inglaterra en 1819. Su familia era una familia de granjeros. Desde muy pequeño demostró tener talento para las matemáticas.
John Couch Adams è stato un matematico britannico. È principalmente noto per avere ipotizzato l'esistenza di Nettuno usando puramente calcoli matematici. I calcoli cercavano di spiegare le discrepanze tra l'orbita di Urano e le leggi del moto dei pianeti elaborate da Keplero e Newton. Contemporaneamente a John Couch Adams, gli stessi calcoli venivano eseguiti da Urbain Le Verrier, l'uno all ...
John Couch Adams was born in Cornwall, England in 1819 to a farming family. From a very early age he amazed everyone with his extraordinary abilities to do mathematical calculations in his head without the use of pen and paper. He was educated in mathematics at St. Johns College, Cambridge. While still an undergraduate, he performed an ...
John Couch Adams entered St John's in 1839. At the end of his second year he decided to investigate the irregularities in the motion of Uranus in order to discover if they were due to the action of an unknown planet beyond it. Having graduated senior wrangler in 1843, and won a fellowship, Adams took up the problem in earnest.
However, the painful controversy having ended, astronomers can only endorse the words of Sir John Herschel, addressing the Royal Astronomical Society in 1848, and speaking of Le Verrier and Adams ...
Emanuele Cangini - 01/01/2016. Ecco la storia di John Couch Adams, celebre matematico britannico, e dei suoi preziosi contributi all’astronomia, tra cui gli studi che, analizzando le cause delle irregolarità del moto di Urano, lo portarono alla scoperta di un nuovo pianeta nelle vicinanze: Nettuno.
22 mag 2021 · Abstract. John Couch Adams was one of the leading mathematical astronomers in the country and at a very young age (27 in 1846) and a junior Fellow in his college, was a pivotal figure in the hotly disputed discovery of Neptune. Born within one of the more remote areas of England, Cornwall, the region of his birth and his Cornish upbringing were ...
