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For many years I was organizing a weekly seminar on dynamical astronomy, and I used to make some historical remarks on every subject, including some anecdotes from my contacts with many leading scientists over the years. I described also the development of various subjects and the emergence of new ideasindynamicalastronomy. Thenseveralpeoplepromptedmetowritedown these remarks, which cannot be found in papers, or books. Thus, I decided to write this book, which contains my experiences over the years. I hope that this book may be helpful to astronomy students all over the world. During my many years of teaching, as a visiting professor, in American Universities (1962-1994, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Chicago, Maryland and Florida) I was impressed by the quality of my graduate students. Most of them were very bright, asking penetrating questions, and preparing their homework in a perfect way. In a few cases, instead of a ?nal examination, I assigned to them some small research projects and they presented their results at the end of the course. They were excellent in preparing the appropriate slides and in presenting their results in a concise and clear way.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Astronomy, space & time

• Full title: Adventures in Order and Chaos
• Subtitle: A Scientific Autobiography
• Author: George Contopoulos
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9789048167739
• ISBN: 9048167736
• ID: 02715490
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 341 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 160 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. December 2010

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