6/1/2023 0 Comments The three body problem![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Leading mathematicians attacked this problem over more than two centuries without arriving at a definite answer. In fact, it was a big question whether this system is stable at all in the long run. 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. 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. ![]() 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 three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s physics and astronomy. 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. ![]()
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