The book addresses the needs of graduate and senior undergraduate students in mathematics and physics, and of researchers interested in approaching classical mechanics from a modern point of view.
Andreas Knauf is a professor of mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander UniversitΓ€t Erlangen-NΓΌrnberg. His research interests include classical, quantum and statistical mechanics.
He is the author, with Markus Klein, of the book βClassical Planar Scattering by Coulombic Potentialsβ and, with Yakov Sinai, of the book βClassical Nonintegrability, Quantum Chaosβ.