Celestial encounters : the origins of chaos and stability
Starting with the story of Poincare's work on the phenomenon of chaos, this study traces the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics first posed in Isaac Newton's "Principia" in 1686.
Print Book, English, 1996
Princeton University Press, Princeton (N.J.), 1996
XV, 233 p. ill. 24 cm
9780691027432, 0691027439
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