Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (24 October 1821 to 13 August 1896) was a German mathematician, born in Zweibrücken and died in Munich. He was the son of Julie Reinhold and Justus Christian Felix Seidel. The philosopher and mathematical theorist Imre Lakatos credits him with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence while he was analysing an incorrect proof put forward earlier by Augustin-Louis Cauchy. In 1857 he also contributed to optics, decomposing the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations that are now commonly called the five Seidel aberrations. His doctoral students included Eduard Study and Hermann Wiener, the Gauss-Seidel method for solving linear systems carries his name, and a lunar crater is named after him.
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Imre Lakatos credits von Seidel with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence
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