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For Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician.
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Today it means: Any of a class of functions that are solutions to a particular form of differential equation (a Bessel equation) and are typically used to describe waves in a cylindrically symmetric system. Full definition →
For Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.