Acknowledgements
This week was written by June Barrow-Green. The course is adapted from the book What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy.
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(b) Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_de_Fermat.jpg
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(b) Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christoph_Bernhard_Francke_-_Bildnis_des_Philosophen_Leibniz_(ca._1695).jpg
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Figure 9: The trajectory of a third body interacting with a large mass (Earth, left) and a small mass (Moon, right) from July 19, 2019 by DAVID D. NOLTE: Figure 1 from Getting Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins Home from the Moon: Apollo 11 and the Three-Body Problem: https://galileo-unbound.blog/2019/07/19/getting-armstrong-aldrin-and-collins-home-from-the-moon-apollo-11-and-the-three-body-problem
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