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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe theorem that was none - II. The profound 70s
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Alfred Gautschy
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This second pedagogical installment on the history of the Vogt-Russell theorem focuses on research in the 1970s on the existence and uniqueness of star models. An appendix presents stellar evolution models, computed with the MESA code, in different approximations to emphasize points made in the main text.
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