Three-body problem

Quality:

Three-body problem - classical mechanics problem of three massive point particles interacting via Newtonian gravity; special case of the ?‐body problem for ?=3. Article “Three-body problem” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Three-body problem”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 982 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1655 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #652 in November 2011
• Global: #4917 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #225 in March 2024
• Global: #184 in March 2024

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 三体问题		75.5118
2	English (en) Three-body problem		71.4341
3	Russian (ru) Задача трёх тел		54.9467
4	Polish (pl) Problem trzech ciał		50.0641
5	Uzbek (uz) Uch jism muammosi		49.4847
6	Japanese (ja) 三体問題		48.6215
7	Portuguese (pt) Problema de três corpos		48.2861
8	Esperanto (eo) Tri-korpa problemo		40.0455
9	Romanian (ro) Problema celor trei corpuri		35.4789
10	Malay (ms) Masalah tiga jasad		31.4836

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three-body problem		7 865 681
2	Russian (ru) Задача трёх тел		1 134 223
3	German (de) Dreikörperproblem		969 180
4	Spanish (es) Problema de los tres cuerpos		709 100
5	Chinese (zh) 三体问题		552 833
6	Japanese (ja) 三体問題		459 626
7	Italian (it) Problema dei tre corpi		413 657
8	Portuguese (pt) Problema de três corpos		125 810
9	Hungarian (hu) Háromtest-probléma		96 526
10	Czech (cs) Problém tří těles		85 634

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three-body problem		41 670
2	Russian (ru) Задача трёх тел		5 054
3	German (de) Dreikörperproblem		3 699
4	Japanese (ja) 三体問題		3 099
5	Italian (it) Problema dei tre corpi		1 831
6	Chinese (zh) 三体问题		1 686
7	Polish (pl) Problem trzech ciał		1 119
8	Spanish (es) Problema de los tres cuerpos		1 080
9	Czech (cs) Problém tří těles		817
10	Portuguese (pt) Problema de três corpos		661

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Three-body problem		301
2	German (de) Dreikörperproblem		118
3	Russian (ru) Задача трёх тел		91
4	Italian (it) Problema dei tre corpi		51
5	Chinese (zh) 三体问题		38
6	Danish (da) Trelegemeproblemet		32
7	Spanish (es) Problema de los tres cuerpos		32
8	Hebrew (he) בעיית שלושת הגופים		30
9	Dutch (nl) Drielichamenprobleem		30
10	Japanese (ja) 三体問題		20

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Hiru gorputzen problema (grabitazioa)		1
2	Finnish (fi) Kolmen kappaleen ongelma		1
3	Italian (it) Problema dei tre corpi		1
4	Japanese (ja) 三体問題		1
5	Polish (pl) Problem trzech ciał		1
6	Russian (ru) Задача трёх тел		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Uch jism muammosi		1
8	Arabic (ar) مسألة الأجسام الثلاثة		0
9	Belarusian (be) Задача трох цел		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Задача с три тела		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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