Celestial Encounters : : The Origins of Chaos and Stability / / Philip Holmes, Florin Diacu.
Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincaré submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not before it underwent significant changes itself. "The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynam...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 23 halftones 64 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- A Note to the Reader
- 1. A Great Discovery—And a Mistake
- 2. Symbolic Dynamics
- 3. Collisions and Other Singularities
- 4. Stability
- 5. KAM Theory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index