The Sheer Joy of Celestial Mechanics
by
Nathaniel Grossman
Description: The Sheer Joy of Celestial Mechanics by Nathaniel Grossman presents fundamental concepts and practical applications related to the movement of celestial bodies within gravitational fields. It offers a detailed introduction to the principles governing orbital mechanics
ISBN: 0817638326
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> Don't look for axioms to memorize. Too many courses are consecrated to teaching students to play chords on a set of axioms. This book celebrates the heroic age of calculus, the time of Euler, Maclaurin, Clairault, Lagrange, and Laplace, a time before delta and epsilon. [...] mathematics was invented to do things, not just to be talked about, and today - still - its greatest triumphs are what it can do.
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