By George Contopoulos

This e-book is without doubt one of the first to supply a normal assessment of order and chaos in dynamical astronomy. The growth of the speculation of chaos has a profound impression on galactic dynamics. It has even invaded celestial mechanics, when you consider that chaos was once present in the sunlight approach which some time past used to be regarded as a prototype of order. The ebook offers a unifying method of those subject matters from an writer who has spent greater than 50 years of analysis within the box. the 1st half treats order and chaos ordinarily. the opposite components care for order and chaos in galaxies and with different purposes in dynamical astronomy, starting from celestial mechanics to common relativity and cosmology.

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