The Three-Body Problem by Mauri Valtonen
English | 2 Mar. 2006 | ISBN: 0521852242 | 356 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | 2 Mar. 2006 | ISBN: 0521852242 | 356 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
How do three celestial bodies move under their mutual gravitational attraction? This problem has been studied by Isaac Newton and leading mathematicians over the last two centuries. Poincaré's conclusion, that the problem represents an example of chaos in nature, opens the new possibility of using a statistical approach.