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_Shipwreck  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What was the latest book you read?

I finished The Three-Body Problem a few days ago, it was pretty good! (but it's a best-seller, so not really a very brave recommendation).

Also, I had to look up the three-body problem in wikipedia, it's fascinating that such a basic system can be so complicated.

    In 1887, mathematicians Heinrich Bruns and Henri Poincaré showed that there is no general analytical solution for the three-body problem given by algebraic expressions and integrals. The motion of three bodies is generally non-repeating, except in special cases.