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020 _a9781139164535 (ebook)
020 _z9780521773034 (hardback)
020 _z9780521774864 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aQB362.F47
_bH44 2003
082 0 0 _a523.8/55
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100 1 _aHeggie, D. C.,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe gravitational million-body problem /
_cDouglas Heggie, Piet Hut.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2003.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThe globular star clusters of the Milky Way contain hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravitational interactions, and date from the time when the Milky Way was forming. This 2003 text describes the theory astronomers need for studying globular star clusters. The gravitational million-body problem is an idealised model for understanding the dynamics of a cluster with a million stars. After introducing the million-body problem from various view-points, the book systematically develops the tools needed for studying the million-body problems in nature, and introduces the most important theoretical models. Including a comprehensive treatment of few-body interactions, and developing an intuitive but quantitative understanding of the three-body problem, the book introduces numerical methods, relevant software, and current problems. Suitable for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and astronomy, this text also has important applications in the fields of theoretical physics, computational science and mathematics.
650 0 _aFew-body problem.
650 0 _aStars
_xGlobular clusters.
650 0 _aGravitation.
700 1 _aHut, Piet,
_d1952-
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521773034
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164535
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