The coming-to-be of Hansen's method

DOI10.1007/S00407-013-0128-YzbMATH Open1311.01019OpenAlexW2010313934MaRDI QIDQ461374FDOQ461374

Authors: Curtis Wilson, William L. Harper 

Publication date: 10 October 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-013-0128-y

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zbMATH Keywords

astronomycelestial mechanicsJupiter-Saturnus interactionsLaplace's perturbation method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Celestial mechanics (70F15) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) Perturbation theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H09) Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems (70Exx)

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