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Few-Body Problems in Physics '93 - Proceedings of the XIVth European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 23-27, 1993 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Few-Body Problems in Physics '93 - Proceedings of the XIVth European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 23-27, 1993 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Series: Few-Body Systems, 7
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It is apparent from the history of science, that few-body problems
have an interdis ciplinary character. Newton, after solving the
two-body problem so brilliantly, tried his hand at the
Sun-Earth-Moon system. Here he failed in two respects: neither was
he able to compute the motion of the moon accurately, nor did he
understand the reason for that. It took a long time to understand
the fundamental importance of Newton's failure, and only Poincare
realised what was the fundamental difficulty in Newtons programme.
Nowadays, the term deterministic chaos is associated with this
problem. The deep insights of Poincare were neglected by the
founding fathers of Quantum Physics. Thus history was repeated by
Bohr and his students. After quantising the hydrogen atom, they
soon found that the textbook case of a three-body problem in atomic
physics, the 3He-atom, did not yield to the Bohr-Sommerfeld
quantisation methods. Only these days do people realise what
precisely were the difficulties connected to this semi classical
way of treating quantum systems. Our field, as we know it today,
began in principle in the early 1950's, when Watson sketched the
outlines of three-body scattering theory. Mathematical rigour was
achieved by Faddeev and thereafter, at the beginning of the 1960's,
the quantum three-body prob lem, at least as far as short-range
forces were concerned, w&s tamed. In the years that followed,
through the work of others, who first applied Faddeev's methods,
but later added new techniques, the three-and four-body problems
became fully housebroken."
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