Theory of Orbits: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods

by Dino Boccaletti and Giuseppe Pucacco

Book Overview

Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his 1 celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy- namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the same general category as celestial mechanics. ... ] Indeed, several of the problems of modern stellar dy- namical theory are so severely classical that it is difficult to believe that they are not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364208222X
• ISBN13: 9783642082221
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"