Going for Gold: Henri Poincaré and Solar System Stability

In his classical textbook on mechanics, Edmund Whittaker described the three-body problem as “the most celebrated of all dynamical problems”. From 1906 to 1912, Whittaker was Andrews Professor at Trinity College Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. The three-body problem is to determine the motion of three massive bodies moving in space under mutual gravitational … Continue reading Going for…