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Popular belief, and This paper, imply that the three-body problem is unsolvable. The authors mention Poincaré's work demonstrating this. However, they don't me
by timoth3y 5y ago
Popular belief, and This paper, imply that the three-body problem is unsolvable. The authors mention Poincaré's work demonstrating this.
However, they don't mention Sundman's work in the early 1900's proving that the n-body problem can be solved as a converging power-series.
Sundman's solution is correct, but the series converges very slowly and is impractical.
Since an analytic solution was found over 100 years ago, why are we still debating whether one exists?