This work describes the fundamental principles, problems, and methods of classical mechanics. The approach of the authors stresses the working apparatus of classical mechanics, rather than its physical foundations or applications. The book is significantly expanded compared to the previous edition. The authors have added two chapters on the variational principles and methods of classical mechanics as well as on tensor invariants of equations of dynamics. Moreover, various other sections have been revised, added or expanded. The main purpose of the book is to acquaint the reader with classical mechanics as a whole, in both its classical and its contemporary aspects. The EMS addresses all mathematicians, physicists and engineers.
V.I.Arnold
Famous author of various Springer books in the field of dynamical systems, differential equations, hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, classical and celestial mechanics, geometry, topology, algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, singularity theory
1958 Award of the Mathematical Society of Moscow
1965 Lenin Award of the Government of the U.S.S.R.
1976 Honorary Member, London Mathematical Society
1979 Honorary Doctor, University P. and M. Curie, Paris
1982 Carfoord Award of the Swedish Academy
1983 Foreign Member, National Academy, U.S.A.
1984 Foreign Member, Academy of Sciences, Paris
1987 Foreign Member, Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S.A.
1988 Honorary Doctor, Warwick University, Coventry
1988 Foreign Member, Royal Soc. London, GB
1988 Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
1990 Member, Academy of Sciences, Russia
1990 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
1991 Honorary Doctor, Utrecht
1991 Honorary Doctor, Bologna
1991 Member, Academy of Natural Sciences, Russia
1991 Member, Academia Europaea
1992 N.V. Lobachevsky Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences
1994 Harvey Prize Technion Award
1994 Honorary Doctor, University of Madrid, Complutense
1997 Honorary Doctor, University of Toronto, Canada
2001 Wolf Prize of Wolf Foundation
V.V.Kozlov
Famous Springer author working in the field of general principles of dynamics, integrability of equations of motion, variational methods in mechanics, rigid body dynamics, stability theory, non-holonomic mechanics, impact theory, symmetries and integral invariants, mathematical aspects of statistical mechanics, ergodic theory and mathematical physics.
1973 Lenin Komsomol Prize (the major prize for young scientists in USSR)
1986 M.V. Lomonosov 1st Degree Prize (the major prize awarded by M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
1988 S. A. Chaplygin Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences
1994 State Prize of the Russian Federation
1995 Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
2000 S.V. Kovalevskaya Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences
2000 Member, Academy of Sciences, Russia
2003 Foreign member of the Serbian Science Society
A.I.Neishtadt
Neishtadt is also Springer Author, working in the field of perturbation theory (in particular averaging of perturbations, adiabatic invariants), bifurcation theory, celestial mechanics
2001 A.M.Lyapunov Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences (joint with D.V.Anosov))
