Celestial Encounters

The Origins of Chaos and Stability

Autor: Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Princeton University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, th...

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Autor

Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

1999

Stránek

256

EAN

9780691005454

ISBN

0691005451

Enbook ID

04639189

Vydavatel

Princeton University Press

Hmotnost

384

Rozměry

158 x 236 x 14

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Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincar 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 Dynamics" won a prize sponsored by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and the journal Acta Mathematica, but after accepting the prize, Poincar found a serious mistake in his work. While correcting it, he discovered the phenomenon of chaos. Starting with the story of Poincar'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 Poincar. More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it.

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