The Airy function, or Airy function of the first kind, is a special function named after the British astronomer George Biddell Airy. It and a related second function are the two linearly independent solutions of the differential equation d squared y over d x squared minus x y equals zero, known as the Airy equation or the Stokes equation. Because a related linear equation is oscillatory for negative values of its parameter and exponential for positive values, the Airy functions are oscillatory for negative x and exponential for positive x, making the Airy equation the simplest second order linear differential equation with a turning point, a point at which solutions change character from oscillatory to exponential.
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Airy (1838), "On the intensity of light in the neighbourhood of a caustic", Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 6
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the Airy function (or Airy function of the first kind) is a special function named after the British astronomer George Biddell Airy.
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