three-body problem

classical mechanics problem of three massive point particles interacting via Newtonian gravity; special case of the 𝑛‐body problem for 𝑛=3
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three-body problem
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three-body problem

Summary

three-body problem is a task[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of task entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,848 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • three-body problem's video is recorded as 3body.ogv[3].
  • three-body problem's image is recorded as N-body problem (3).gif[4].
  • three-body problem's instance of is recorded as task[5].
  • three-body problem's follows is recorded as two-body problem[6].
  • three-body problem's followed by is recorded as N-body problem[7].
  • three-body problem's GND ID is recorded as 4012974-3[8].
  • three-body problem's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85135013[9].
  • three-body problem's subclass of is recorded as N-body problem[10].
  • three-body problem's Commons category is recorded as Three-body problem[11].
  • three-body problem's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 76009[12].
  • three-body problem's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05fc8d1[13].
  • three-body problem's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph124613[14].
  • three-body problem's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 530.14[15].
  • three-body problem's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 521[16].
  • three-body problem's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as QB362.T5[17].
  • three-body problem's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • three-body problem's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000194996[19].
  • three-body problem's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/three-body-problem[20].
  • three-body problem's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/three-body-problem[21].
  • three-body problem's different from is recorded as The Three-Body Problem[22].
  • three-body problem's different from is recorded as The Three-Body Problem[23].
  • three-body problem's different from is recorded as Three Prisoners problem[24].
  • three-body problem's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4201502[25].
  • three-body problem's NE.se ID is recorded as trekropparsproblemet[26].
  • three-body problem's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as three-body-problem[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for three-body problem include 3 Body Problem[28], a television series[29], directed by Derek Tsang[30] and The Three-Body Problem[31], a literary work[32], written by Liu Cixin[33].

Why It Matters

three-body problem ranks in the top 8% of task entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,848 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for it include 3 Body Problem[28], a television series[29], directed by Derek Tsang[30] and The Three-Body Problem[31], a literary work[32], written by Liu Cixin[33].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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