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Dedicated to Philip Holmes, for his deep mathematics, for his warm and candid poetry, and for the immense intellectual joy he has instilled in me during the time our book took shape.
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Diacu, F. The solution of then-body problem. The Mathematical Intelligencer 18, 66–70 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024313
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