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Label Year Title Authors Status BD511 1970 1970 Great Ideas And Label Year Title Authors Status BD511 1970 1970 Great ideas and theories of modern cosmology Singh, Jagjit present HX308 1982 1982 Herinneringen: herinneringen uit de arbeidersbeweging: sterrenku Pannekoek, Anton present OB466 2014A 2014 Accretion Processes in Astrophysics: Canary Islands Winter School in As Gonzalez Martinez-Pais, I., Shabaz T., and present Q11 1990 1990 Galactic models Buchler, J.Robert present Q11 1992 1992 Astrophysical disks Dermott, S.F. present Q11 1997 1997 Near-earth objects: the United Nations International Conference Remo, John L. present Q11 1998 1998 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in astrophysics: a festschrift in h Buchler, J.R. present Q125 1950 1950 De mechanisering van het wereldbeeld Dijksterhuis, E.J. present Q171 1932 1932 The mysterious universe Jeans, James present Q183 2013 A 2013 Data-driven modelling and scientific computation: methods for complex Kutz J.N. present Q56 1976 1976 Astrophysique et spectroscopie: communications pres. au colloque present QA1 1976 1976 Supersonic flow and shock waves Courant, R. present QA273 1964 A 1964 Inleiding tot de waarschijnlijkheidsrekening Stam, A.J. present QA273 1964 B 1964 Method of statistical testing Shreider, Yu.A. present QA276 2013 A 2013 Scientific Inference Vaughan, Simon present QA280 1997 1997 Applications of time series analysis in astronomy and meteorolog Subba Rao, T. present QA280 2004 A 2004 The analysis of time series: an introduction Chatfield, Chris present QA297 2003 2003 Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: a meshfree particle method Liu, G.R. present QA297 2007 A 2007 Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing 3rd ed. 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