Poincaré and the three body problem

The Resource Poincaré and the three body problem

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Poincaré and the three body problem

Statement of responsibility

June Barrow-Green

Language

eng

Summary

Poincare's famous memoir on the three body problem arose from his entry in the competition celebrating the 60th birthday of King Oscar of Sweden and Norway. His essay won the prize and was set up in print as a paper in Acta Mathematica when it was found to contain a deep and critical error. In correcting this error Poincare discovered mathematical chaos, as is now clear from June Barrow-Green's pioneering study of a copy of the original memoir annotated by Poincare himself, recently discovered in the Institut Mittag-Leffler in Stockholm. Poincare and the Three Body Problem opens with a discussion of the development of the three body problem itself and Poincare's related earlier work. The book also contains intriguing insights into the contemporary European mathematical community revealed by the workings of the competition. After an account of the discovery of the error and a detailed comparative study of both the original memoir and its rewritten version, the book concludes with an account of the final memoir's reception, influence and impact, and an examination of Poincare's subsequent highly influential work in celestial mechanics

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

515/.352

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QA852

LC item number

.B37 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

History of mathematics,

Series volume

v. 11

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