Florin Diacu is professor of mathematics and former director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is the coauthor of
Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability and the coeditor of
Classical and Celestial Mechanics: The Recife Lectures (both Princeton).
6 Ebooks by Florin Diacu
Florin Diacu: Megadisasters
The history and science behind efforts to predict major disasters, from tsunamis to stock market crashes Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market …
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€27.99
Florin Diacu: Relative Equilibria of the Curved N-Body Problem
The guiding light of this monograph is a question easy to understand but difficult to answer: {What is the shape of the universe? In other words, how do we measure the shortest distance between two …
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€96.29
Florin Diacu: Lost Millennium
Have you ever wondered how we really know what year it is? Part detective story, part conspiracy theory, part scientific history, The Lost Millennium explores the astonishing possibility that our …
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€32.75
Florin Diacu: Relative Equilibria in the 3-Dimensional Curved $n$-Body Problem
The author considers the $3$-dimensional gravitational $n$-body problem, $n/ge 2$, in spaces of constant Gaussian curvature $/kappa/ne 0$, i.e. on spheres ${/mathbb S}_/kappa^3$, for $/kappa>0$, …
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€106.06
Florin Diacu & Philip J. Holmes: Celestial Encounters
Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincaré submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not be …
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€47.99
Hildeberto Cabral & Florin Diacu: Classical and Celestial Mechanics
This book brings together a number of lectures given between 1993 and 1999 as part of a special series hosted by the Federal University of Pernambuco, in which internationally established researchers …
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€139.99
