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unusual facts about Three body problem



Alexis Clairaut

He obtained an ingenious approximate solution of the problem of the three bodies; in 1750 he gained the prize of the St Petersburg Academy for his essay Théorie de la lune; the team made up of Clairaut, Jérome Lalande and Nicole Reine Lepaute successfully computed the date of the 1759 return of Halley's comet.


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Euler's three-body problem

Euler's three-body problem is to describe the motion of a particle under the influence of two centers that attract the particle with central forces that decrease with distance as an inverse-square law, such as Newtonian gravity or Coulomb's law.

John Urschel

The hard-working, strong and physical guard had a paper published—"Instabilities of the Sun-Jupiter-Asteroid Three Body Problem"—spring 2013 in the journal, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.

Liu Cixin

Tor Books announced it will publish an English translation by Ken Liu of the first book in the trilogy as The Three-Body Problem.