Colloquium Publications

1 primary work

Variations on a Theme by Kepler

by Victor Guillemin and Shlomo Sternberg

Published 1 January 1990

A series of five lectures exploring the role that groups, especially Lie groups, play in revealing the laws of nature, focusing on the ramifications and expansion of several of Kepler's laws. About the first third is accessible to the general mathematician; the rest is for specialists in the field.