Adventures in Order and Chaos: A Scientific Autobiography

1. Years of study.- 2. Thesis.- 3. First Trips Abroad.- 4. Appointment as a Professor.- 5. The Third Integral.- 6. To the United States (Through Moscow).- 7. Yale.- 8. Chandrasekhar.- 9. Princeton - New York.- 10. First IAU Symposium in Dynamical Astronomy.- 11. IAU Commission 33.- 12. Applications of the Third Integral.- 12.1. Celestial Mechanics. 12.2. Galactic Dynamics. 12.3. The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem. 12.4. The Störmer Problem. 12.5. Solitons. 12.6. Other Applications. 12.7. The Breakdown of the Third Integral. 13. Resonance Overlap.- 14. The Junta Period and the IAU.- 15. Second Sabbatical in the USA. The Density Wave Theory.- 16. A Visit to Israel.- 17. First IAU regional meeting.- 18. Contacts in Italy.- 19. Service in the IAU.- 20. IAU secretariat.- 21. Visits to the USSR.- 22. Topological methods in Galactic Dynamics.- 23. The IAU General Assembly in Grenoble.- 24. A Sabbatical at ESO.- 25. Astronomy and Astrophysics.- 26. Travelling in Western Europe.- 27. Destruction of the Integrals.- 28. Systems of three Degrees of Freedom.- 29. Bifurcations.- 30. The IAU General Assembly in Greece.- 31. Brouwer Prize.- 32. Visits to ESO.- 33. Termination of Spirals and Bars.- 34. Further Travel.- 35. Order and Chaos.- 36. Relativity and Cosmology.- 37. Quantum Mechanics vs. Classical Mechanics.- 38. University of Florida.- 39. Integrable Models.- 40. Escapes.- 41. Potentials without Escapes.- 42. Chaos and Randomness.- 43. Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Tangles.- 44. Honorary Degree from the University of Chicago.- 45. Dynamical Spectra.- 46. Destruction of Islands of Stability.- 47. Stickiness.- 48. Collaborators in Greece.- 49. Collaborators Abroad.- 50. Our Faculty.- 51. NATO.- 52. Motivation.- 53. Papers and Referees.- 54. Lectures.- 55. Academy of Athens.- 56. Prospects for the Future