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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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