"Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry."
"The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."
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Source: Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?. Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.
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