Philip J. Holmes Florin Diacu Celestial Encounters (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Celestial EncountersCondition: NewSubtitle: The Origins of Chaos and StabilityISBN-10: 0691005451EAN: 9780691005454ISBN: 9780691005454Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/28/1999Description: Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincare 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, Poincare found a serious mistake in his work. While correcting it, he discovered the phenomenon of chaos. Starting with the story of Poincare'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 Poincare.More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 197mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Philip J. Holmes, Florin DiacuGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Princeton Science LibraryRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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