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La Correspondance Entre Henri Poincaré, Les Astronomes, Et Les Géodésiens

La Correspondance Entre Henri Poincaré, Les Astronomes, Et Les Géodésiens

Hardcover

Series: Publications Des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the

Sports GeneralAstronomy & SpaceGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 3764371676
ISBN13: 9783764371678
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Jul 22 2016
Pages: 391
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: French

The letters in this volume cover Poincaré's multifaceted career in astronomy in its entirety, extending from the time of his first publications in 1880 to the end of his life in 1912. At a tender age, Poincaré established his authority in questions of celestial mechanics, and his views were soon sought after on a vast array of questions by the leading astronomers and geodesists of his time, including C.V.L. Charlier, G.H. Darwin, H. Faye, F.R. Helmert, G. W. Hill, A. Lindstedt, A.M. Liapunov, N. Lockyer, S. Newcomb, K. Schwarzschild, and F. Tisserand. Poincaré and his correspondents take up topics ranging from the three-body problem and perturbation theory to the determination of the geoide and the equilibrium figures of rotating fluid masses. The volume also sheds light on Poincaré's three terms as president of the Bureau of Longitudes, where he guided French astronomy and geodesy through ambitious projects, such as the measurement of an arc of meridian near Quito.

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