Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (; 24 October 1821 in Zweibrücken
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. He was the son of Julie Reinhold and Justus Christian Felix Seidel.
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In 1857, von Seidel decomposed the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations. They are now commonly referred to as the five Seidel Aberrations.
The lunar crater Seidel is named after him. His doctoral students include Eduard Study
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The Gauss–Seidel method
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1821 births
1896 deaths
19th-century German mathematicians
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