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It discusses its purpose of understanding general properties of solutions without explicit formulas, its historical development by Henri Poincaré, and its application to the classic problem of the stability of the solar system, spurred by King Oscar II's prize. The text also highlights the inherent difficulty of the N-body problem for more than two bodies.","has_visuals":0,"visual_count":0},{"page_number":49,"title":"Page 049","overview":"This page discusses the historical challenges of the three-body problem in celestial mechanics, contrasting it with Newton's solution for the two-body problem. 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