Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics

Download or read book Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics written by Vladimir I. Arnold and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of the book is to acquaint mathematicians, physicists and engineers with classical mechanics as a whole, in both its traditional and its contemporary aspects. As such, it describes the fundamental principles, problems, and methods of classical mechanics, with the emphasis firmly laid on the working apparatus, rather than the physical foundations or applications. Chapters cover the n-body problem, symmetry groups of mechanical systems and the corresponding conservation laws, the problem of the integrability of the equations of motion, the theory of oscillations and perturbation theory.