Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy

by George Contopoulos

Book Overview

There have been many books on Dynamical Astronomy up to now. Many are devoted to Celestial Mechanics, but there are also several books on Stellar and Galactic Dynamics. The first books on stellar dynamics dealt mainly with the statistics of stellar motions (e. g. Smart's "Stellar Dynamics" (1938), or Trumpler and Weaver's "Statistical Astronomy" (1953)). A classical book in this field is Chandrasekhar's "Principles of Stellar Dynamics" (1942) that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540433600
• ISBN13: 9783540433606
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.8" x 9.0"