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Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability

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Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability - Diacu, Florin, and Holmes, Philip J
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Celestial Encounters traces the history of attempts to solve the problem of celestial mechanics first posited in Isaac Newton's Principia in 1686. More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it. 23 halftones. 64 line illustrations.

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Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability 1999, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691005454

Revised edition

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Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability 1996, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691027432

Hardcover