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Re: Miller, 18.03

ryanb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ryanb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 29 16:20:23 1996

Steve Strogatz, who was a math prof here until two years ago, wrote a book
he used for 18.385 that had several pages of commentary and exercises about
modelling love affairs as systems of coupled differential equations; as he
said, "This lends a whole new meaning to the phrase ``many-body problem''."


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