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The Three-body Problem from Pythagoras to Hawking

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Title/Author:	The Three-body Problem from Pythagoras to Hawking/ by Mauri Valtonen, Joanna Anosova, Konstantin Kholshevnikov, Aleksandr Mylläri, Victor Orlov, Kiyotaka Tanikawa.
Author:	Valtonen, Mauri.
other author:	Anosova, Joanna.
Description:	XI, 173 p. 96 illus., 70 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Astronomy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22726-9
ISBN:	9783319227269

The Three-body Problem from Pythagoras to Hawking
Valtonen, Mauri.

The Three-body Problem from Pythagoras to Hawking[electronic resource] /by Mauri Valtonen, Joanna Anosova, Konstantin Kholshevnikov, Aleksandr Mylläri, Victor Orlov, Kiyotaka Tanikawa. - 1st ed. 2016. - XI, 173 p. 96 illus., 70 illus. in color.online resource.

1 Classical problems -- 2 From Newton to Einstein: the discovery of laws of motion and gravity -- 3 From comets to chaos -- 4 Fractals, entropy and arrow of time -- 5 Solar System -- 6 Interacting galaxies -- 7 Three body problem in perspective -- 8 Black holes and quasars.

This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory. The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s physics and astronomy. The long history of the problem from Pythagoras to Hawking parallels the evolution of ideas about our physical universe, with a particular emphasis on understanding gravity and how it operates between astronomical bodies. The oldest astronomical three-body problem is the question how and when the moon and the sun line up with the earth to produce eclipses. Once the universal gravitation was discovered by Newton, it became immediately a problem to understand why these three-bodies form a stable system, in spite of the pull exerted from one to the other. In fact, it was a big question whether this system is stable at all in the long run. Leading mathematicians attacked this problem over more than two centuries without arriving at a definite answer. The introduction of computers in the last half-a-century has revolutionized the study; now many answers have been found while new questions about the three-body problem have sprung up. One of the most recent developments has been in the treatment of the problem in Einstein’s General Relativity, the new theory of gravitation which is an improvement on Newton’s theory. Now it is possible to solve the problem for three black holes and to test one of the most fundamental theorems of black hole physics, the no-hair theorem, due to Hawking and his co-workers.

ISBN: 9783319227269

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-22726-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

593935
Astronomy.

LC Class. No.: QB1-991

Dewey Class. No.: 520

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