19 - Bibliography

Summary

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes

In listing references, I have only included those most directly related to the text. The subject advances so fast that, at time t, there is not much point in listing a bibliography which is up-to-date as of a time t - τ, for it will be out of date by about t + τ. And these days the most informative complete bibliography is found in Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. So with apologies to everyone, past and present, who is not mentioned, here are the references on which parts of the text are based, or to which the text refers directly. Other related references can be found in the sections on problems and extensions. They provide an entry into the literature rather than a summary of it.

There are a number of classical texts on stellar dynamics, orbit theory and celestial mechanics. Representative examples are:

Arnold, V.I., 1978. Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics (New York: Springer-Verlag).

Chandrasekhar, S., 1960. Principles of Stellar Dynamics (New York: Dover).

Chandrasekhar, S., 1961. Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability (London: Oxford UP).

Chandrasekhar, S., 1969. Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (New Haven: Yale UP).

Hagihara, Y., 1970, 1972. Celestial Mechanics (Cambridge Mass: MIT Press).

Hamilton, W.R., 1834. On a general method in dynamics Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., Pt. 11, 124, 247.