Newton's Clock
Chaos In The Solar System
With his critically acclaimed best-sellers The Mathematical Toursist and Islands of Truth, Ivars Peterson took readers to the frontiers of modern mathematics. His new book provides an up-to-date look at one of science's greatest detective stories: the search for order in the workings of the solar system.In the late 1600s, Sir Isaac Newton provided what astronomers had long sought: a seemingly reliable way of calculating planetary orbits and positions. Newton's laws of motion and his coherent, mathematical view of the universe dominated scientific discourse for centuries. At the same time, observers recorded subtle, unexpected movements of the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-1387-8
- EAN: 9781466813878
- Produktnummer: 22474072
- Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 250 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'266 KB
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