Poincaré and the Three Body Problem by June Barrow-Green

Poincaré and the Three Body Problem

June Barrow-Green

272 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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The idea of chaos figures prominently in mathematics today. It arose in the work of one of the greatest mathematicians of the late 19th century, Henri Poincare, on a problem in celestial mechanics: the three body problem. This ancient problem - to...

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