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Spinning Tops: A Course on Integrable Systems

Spinning Tops: A Course on Integrable Systems

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Book 51

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ISBN10: 0521561299
ISBN13: 9780521561297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 13 1996
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
Since the time of Lagrange and Euler, it has been well known that an understanding of algebraic curves can illuminate the picture of rigid bodies provided by classical mechanics. Many mathematicians have established a modern view of the role played by algebraic geometry in recent years. This book presents some of these modern techniques, which fall within the orbit of finite dimensional integrable systems. The main body of the text presents a rich assortment of methods and ideas from algebraic geometry prompted by classical mechanics, while in appendices the author describes general, abstract theory. She gives the methods a topological application, for the first time in book form, to the study of Liouville tori and their bifurcations.

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