Books:
- F. Diacu,
The Lost Millennium---History's Timetables Under Siege, Knopf Canada, 2005;
Vintage Canada, 2006.
- H. Cabral and F. Diacu,
Classical and Celestial Mechanics---The Recife Lectures, Princeton University
Press, 2002.
- F. Diacu, An Introduction to Differential
Equations---Order and Chaos,W.H. Freeman, New York, 2000. (Translations: Portuguese, 2004).
Corrections to the first edition: pdf file
- F. Diacu and P. Holmes, Celestial
Encounters---The Origins of Chaos and Stability, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1996. (Translations: Romanian, 1996; Chinese, 2001;
Greek, 2001; Hungarian, 2003; Japanese 2004, Russian, 2004.)
- F. Diacu, Singularities
of the N-Body Problem, Les Publications CRM, Montreal, 1992.
Selected Papers:
- F. Diacu, T. Fujiwara, E. Perez-Chavela, and M. Santoprete,
Saari's Homographic Conjecture of the Three-Body Problem, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360, 12
(2008), 6447-6473.
- F. Diacu, E. Perez-Chavela, and M. Santoprete, Central Configurations and Total Collisions for Quasihomogeneous n-Body Problems, Nonlinear Anal. 65, (2006), 1425-1439.
- F. Diacu, E. Perez-Chavela and M. Santoprete, Saari's Conjecture of the N-Body Problem in the Collinear Case, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357,10 (2005), 4215-4223.
- F. Diacu, E. Perez-Chavela and M. Santoprete, The Kepler Problem with Anisotropic Perturbations, J. Math. Phys. 46, 7 (2005), 072701(1-21).
- F. Diacu and M. Santoprete, On the Global Flow of the Anisitropic Manev Problem,
Phys. D 194 (2004), 75-94.
- F. Diacu and E. Perez-Chavela, On the Dynamics of the Langmuir Problem, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 (2003), 9053-9066.
- F. Diacu and M. Santoprete, Nonintegrability and Chaos in the Anisotropic Manev Problem, Phys. D 156
(2001), 39-52.
- F. Diacu, Stability in the Anisotropic Manev Problem,
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33 (2000), 6573-6578.
- F. Diacu, A Century-long Loop, Math. Intelligencer
22 (2) (2000), 19-25.
- F. Diacu, V. Mioc, and C. Stoica, Phase-space structure and regularization of Manev-type problems, Nonlinear Anal. 41(2000), 1029-1055.
- F. Diacu, Two-body problems with drag or thrust: qualitative
results, Celestial Mechanics 75 (1999), 1-15.
- S. Craig, F. Diacu, E.A. Lacomba, and E. Perez-Chavela, On the anisotropic
Manev problem, J. Math. Phys. 40, 3 (1999),
1359-1375.
- F. Diacu and D. Selaru, Chaos in the Gylden problem,
J. Math. Phys. 39, 12 (1998), 6537-6546.
- F. Diacu, Near-Collision Dynamics for Particle Systems with Quasihomogeneous Potentials, J. Differential Equations,
128, 58-77, 1996.
- F. Diacu, The Solution of the N-Body Problem,
Math. Intelligencer 18 (3), 66-70, 1996.
- J. Delgado, F. Diacu, E.A. Lacomba, A. Mingarelli, V. Mioc, E. Perez-Chavela,
C. Stoica, The Global Flow of the Manev Problem, J. Math.
Phys. 37 (6), 2748-2761, 1996.
- F. Diacu, The Planar Isosceles Problem for Maneff's Gravitational
Law, J. Math. Physics 34 (12), 5671-5690, 1993.
- F. Diacu, Painleve's Conjecture, Math. Intelligencer 15 (2), 6-12, 1993.
- F. Diacu, A Generic Property of the Bounded Syzygy Solutions,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 116, 809-812, 1992.
- F. Diacu, Regularization of Partial Collisions in the N-Body
Problem, Differential Integral Equations 5, 103-136, 1992.
- F. Diacu, The Masses in a Symmetric Centered Solution of the N-Body
Problem, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 109, 1079-1085, 1990.
Popular Science Articles:
- F. Diacu, Mathematical Research: Invention and Discovery, Pi in the Sky 11, 3, 2008.
- F. Diacu, On the Dynamics of Karate Pi in the Sky
6, 9-11, 2003.
- F. Diacu, The Top Mathematics Award,
Pi in the Sky 3, 17-18, 2001, and The Ring, February 3, 2001,
p. 6.
- F. Diacu, The slingshot effect of
celestial bodies, Pi in the Sky 2, 16-18, 2000.
Encyclopedia Articles:
- F. Diacu, Celestial Mechanics,
Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
- F. Diacu, N-Body Problem,
Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
Newspaper Articles:
- F. Diacu,
The mathematics of making money, The Ring, Thursday, February 21, 2002, p. 7.
- F. Diacu, Reality is this: new
millennium starts tomorrow, Times Colonist, Saturday,
December 30, 2000, p. A11.
- F. Diacu, Make elections fairer: use
Borda count, Times Colonist, Saturday, December 9, 2000,
p. A19.
Interviews:
Reviews:
Presentations:
Awards:
- The 1996 Prize of The American Romanian Academy of
Arts and Sciences
- The Outstanding Academic Book award for 1997
from Choice Magazine for Celestial Encounters
- Celstial Encounters made the list of Best 10 Nonfiction
Books of 1997 for The American Reporter Book Review
Hobbies:
Blog:
Florin Diacu's Food For Thought
Complete curriculum vitae: pdf file
