Celestial Encounters

Diacu, Florin; Holmes, Philip J.

ISBN 10: 0691027439 / ISBN 13: 9780691027432

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1996

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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. In describing how mathematical rigour was brought to bear on one of our oldest fascinations - the motions of the heavens - they introduce the people whose ideas led to the field now called nonlinear dynamics. In presenting the modern theory of dynamic systems, the models underlying much of modern science are described pictorally, using the geometrical language invented by Poincare. More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Florin Diacu is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Victoria in Canada. Philip Holmes, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Celestial Encounters
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good