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This is Volume 11 in theHistory of Mathematics series from the American Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society.
Continued from the back cover: "Poincaré's famous memoir on the three body problem arose from his entry in the competition celebrating the 60th birthday of King Oscar of Sweden and Norway. His essay won the prize and was set up in print as a paper in Acta Mathematica when it was found to contain a deep and critical error. In correcting this error Poincaré discovered mathematical chaos, as is now clear from June Barrow-Green's pioneering study of a copy of the original memoir annotated by Poincaré himself, recently discovered in the Institut Mittag-Leffler in Stockholm.
"Poincaré and the Three Body Problem opens with a discussion of the development of the three body problem itself and Poincaré's related earlier work. The book also contains intriguing insights into the contemporary European mathematical community revealed by the workings of the competition. After an account of the discovery of the error and a detailed comparative study of both the original memoir and its rewritten version, the book concludes with an account of the final memoir's reception, influence and impact, and an examination of Poincaré's subsequent highly influential work in celestial mechanics."
Chapters
Introduction
Historical Background
Poincaré's Work before 1889
Oscar II's 60th Birthday Competition
Poincaré's Memoir on the Three Body Problem
Reception of Poincaré's Memoir
Poincaré's Related Work after 1889
Associated Mathematical Activity
Hadamard and Birkhoff
Epilogue
Appendices
A letter from Gösta Mittag-Leffler to Sonya Kovalevskaya
