Definition:Perturbation Theory/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Perturbation Theory
The discipline of perturbation theory was effectively initiated by Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in his analysis of the Sun's gravitational effect on the Moon.
Sources
- 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text{VI}$: On the Seashore