Oscar II's prize competition and the error in Poincaré's memoir on the three body problem

DOI10.1007/BF00374436zbMath0812.01010MaRDI QIDQ1343716

June Barrow-Green

Publication date: 30 January 1995

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00374436

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical system; chaotic behavior; homoclinic points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70F07: Three-body problems

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

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