What did Poincaré discover in the three-body problem?
Chaotic deterministic system
Stable orbits
Periodic solutions
Conservation laws
Answer
In his research on the three-body problem, Henri Poincaré discovered a chaotic deterministic system, which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory. This was a groundbreaking discovery in the field of mathematics and physics.
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