The Analytical Foundations of Celestial Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics) - Softcover

Wintner, Aurel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486780600 ISBN 13: 9780486780603

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2014

Synopsis

With this 1941 monograph, Aurel Wintner joined Poincaré, Birkhoff, and others in placing celestial mechanics on a sound mathematical basis. The product of many years of work by the author, it remains an extremely valuable contribution to the literature of this field.
Starting with a review of dynamical operations, the treatment advances to local and non-local questions, dynamical systems, the problem of two bodies and the problem of several bodies, and an introduction to the restricted problem. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, the text is amply supplemented by a substantial section of notes and references in which a great deal of the historical literature from which it derives is discussed.

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About the Author

Aurel Friedrich Wintner (1903–58) received his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig. From 1930 to 1958 he taught at Johns Hopkins University, where Dover author Shlomo Sternberg was one of his students. Wintner made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, differential equations, and probability theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486780600
• ISBN 13: 9780486780603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464