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Poincaré and the Three Body Problem
About this Title
June E Barrow-Green, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
1997; Volume 11
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0367-7 (print); 978-1-4704-3879-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/011
MathSciNet review: MR1415387
MSC: Primary 01A55; Secondary 01A70, 70-03, 70F07
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Historical background
- Chapter 3. Poincare’s work before 1889
- Chapter 4. Oscar II’s 60th birthday competition
- Chapter 5. Poincare’s Memoirs on the three body problem
- Chapter 6. Reception of Poincare’s memoir
- Chapter 7. Poincare’s related work after 1889
- Chapter 8. Associated mathematical activity
- Chapter 9. Hadamard and Birkoff
- Chapter 10. Epilogue