The Mathematics Genealogy Project

Home
Search
Extrema
About MGP
- Mission
- News
- Staff
- Recognition
- Acknowledgments
Links
FAQs
Posters
Submit Data
Mirrors
- NDSU (main)
- AMS
- Bielefeld
- IMPA

A service of the NDSU Department of Mathematics, in association with the American Mathematical Society.

Please email us with feedback.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Biography MathSciNet

Dr. phil. honoris causa Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1810

Dissertation:

Mathematics Subject Classification: 85—Astronomy and astrophysics

Advisor: Carl Friedrich Gauß

Students:
Click here to see the students listed in chronological order.

Name	School	Year	Descendants
Friedrich Argelander	Universität Königsberg	1822	8
Heinrich Scherk	Universität Berlin	1823	27625

According to our current on-line database, Friedrich Bessel has 2 students and 27635 descendants.
We welcome any additional information.

If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form. To submit students of this mathematician, please use the new data form.