This book gives a complete global geometric description of the motion of the two di- mensional hannonic oscillator, the Kepler problem, the Euler top, the spherical pendulum and the Lagrange top. These classical integrable Hamiltonian systems one sees treated in almost every physics book on classical mechanics. So why is this book necessary? The answer is that the standard treatments are not complete. For instance in physics books one cannot see the monodromy in the spherical pendulum from its explicit solution in terms of elliptic functions nor can one read off from the explicit solution the...
This book gives a complete global geometric description of the motion of the two di- mensional hannonic oscillator, the Kepler problem, the Euler top,...