Celestial Encounters

The Origins of Chaos and Stability

Szerző: Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Princeton University Press

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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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Szerző

Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1999

oldal

256

EAN

9780691005454

ISBN

0691005451

Enbook ID

04639189

Kiadó

Princeton University Press

Súly

384

Méretek

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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