Product Description: In 1801, a young mathematician stunned the scientific world by using the modest mathematical tools of algebra and trigonometry to solve the complex problem of calculating planetary orbits. He explains his methods in this volume, which is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students and remains a vital reference in modern astronomical computation and celestial mechanics...read more

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his l 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...read more

Product Description: Hitherto, most scientists have believed that crater distributions on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system have been random. But from a thorough analysis of the available data and a theoretical base in nonlinear dynamics and deterministic chaos, the author argues otherwise, linking the oscillations and feedback systems of the cosmos not only to the chronicle of terrestrial impacts but also to the dynamics of Earth's mantle, the perturbations of its magnetic field, its tidal and volcanic processes, and other phenomena...read more