It has plagued scientists since the days of Isaac Newton. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A physics problem that has plagued ...

The "three-body problem," the term coined for predicting the motion of three gravitating bodies in space, is essential for understanding a variety of astrophysical processes as well as a large class ...

In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and delivered a speech that would echo through the next century. He outlined 10 — and ...