9R7. Classical Many-Body Problems Amenable to Exact Treatments. (Solvable and/or Integrable and/or Linearizable…) in One-, Two-, and Three-Dimensional Space. Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol m66. - F Calogero (Dept of Phys, Univ of Rome “La Sapienza,” p Aldo Moro, Rome, 00185, Italy). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 2001. 749 pp. ISBN 3-540-41764-8. $79.95.
Reviewed by M Pascal (Lab de Modelisation en Mec, Univ Pierre et Marie Curie, Tour 66, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75252 Cedex 05, France).
This book is concerned with integrable problems in classical mechanics (excluding quantam or relativistic mechanics). These problems are related to the motion of a system of particles acted upon by several kinds of forces in one-, two-, or three-dimensions. More general Hamiltonian systems (not associated with a Lagrangian function) are also considered. In most cases, integrable Hamiltonian systems mean Liouville integrable systems. In almost all examples dealing with the motion of a set of particles, the...
