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three-body problem

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three-body problem [′thrē ¦bäd·ē ‚präb·ləm]
(mechanics)
The problem of predicting the motions of three objects obeying Newton's laws of motion and attracting each other according to Newton's law of gravitation.


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In the centuries that followed, this three-body problem became one of the most famous questions in mathematics.
Although the dynamical systems he has studied appear contrived, they suggest that it may be worth looking for a similar level of complexity in, say, the so-called three-body problem, which concerns the complicated motions of three gravitationally interacting objects.
 
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