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Celestial Encounters
By Florin Diacu
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Description
Starting with the story of Poincaré's work, Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes trace the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics first posed in Isaac Newton's Principia in 1686. In describing how mathematical rigor was brought to bear on one of our oldest fascinations--the motions of the heavens--they introduce the people whose ideas led to the flourishing field now called nonlinear dynamics.
In presenting the modern theory of dynamical systems, the models underlying much of modern science are described pictorially, using the geometrical language invented by Poincaré. More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1999-03-28
Publication Date:
1999-03-28
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0691005451
ISBN13:
9780691005454
Weight:
395 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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