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19 de jun. de 2009 · John Couch Adams Simultáneamente, en Cambridge, el joven y brillante matemático John Couch Adams (1819-1892), sin conocer el trabajo de Le Verrier, llevaba tiempo trabajando en el mismo problema.
John Couch Adams (n. 5 iunie 1819, Laneast (d), Cornwall (d), Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 21 ianuarie 1892, Cambridge, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei) a fost un matematician, astronom, profesor universitar englez și director al Observatorului din Cambridge . Este cunoscut mai ales pentru ...
22 de may. de 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 ...
John Couch Adams nació en la granja Lidcot, a siete millas de Launceston. Era el hijo mayor de Thomas Adams, un granjero y devoto wesleyano, y Tabitha Knill Grylls. Las circunstancias familiares eran modestas pero respetables: la prima de Tabitha Adams era la directora de una escuela privada en Devonport, y en 1836 su madre adoptiva le dejó algunas propiedades y un pequeño ingreso que ...
John Couch Adams was born in England in 1819. He was born to a farming family. When Adams was very young he showed a talent for doing math. He could do very difficult math problems in his head. Adams went to St. Johns College in Cambridge to study math. While a student there he used math to predict the presence of a new planet beyond Uranus.
In 1845, astronomers Urbain Le Verrier in Paris and John Couch Adams in Cambridge separately began calculations to determine the nature and position of such a planet. Le Verrier's success also led to a tense international dispute over priority, because shortly after the discovery George Airy , at the time British Astronomer Royal , announced that Adams had also predicted the discovery of the ...
