| 1 |   | Direct N-Body Codes by Sverre J. Aarseth |   | 1 | 
| 2 |   | Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem by Seppo Mikkola |   | 31 | 
| 3 |   | Resonance, Chaos and Stability: The Three-Body Problem in Astrophysics by Rosemary A. Mardling |   | 59 | 
| 4 |   | Fokker-Planck Treatment of Collisional Stellar Dynamics by Marc Freitag |   | 97 | 
| 5 |   | Monte-Carlo Models of Collisional Stellar Systems by Marc Freitag |   | 123 | 
| 6 |   | Particle-Mesh Technique and SUPERBOX by Michael Fellhauer |   | 159 | 
| 7 |   | Dynamical Friction by Michael Fellhauer |   | 171 | 
| 8 |   | Initial Conditions for Star Clusters by Pavel Kroupa |   | 181 | 
| 9 |   | Stellar Evolution by Christopher A. Tout |   | 261 | 
| 10 |   | N-Body Stellar Evolution by Jarrod R. Hurley |   | 283 | 
| 11 |   | Binary Stars by Christopher A. Tout |   | 297 | 
| 12 |   | N-Body Binary Evolution by Jarrod R. Hurley |   | 321 | 
| 13 |   | The Workings of a Stellar Evolution Code by Ross Church |   | 333 | 
| 14 |   | Realistic N-Body Simulations of Globular Clusters by A. Dougal Mackey |   | 347 | 
| 15 |   | Parallelization, Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N-Body Simulations by Rainer Spurzem and Ingo Berentzen and Peter Berczik and David Merritt and Pau Amaro-Seoane and Stefan Harfst and Alessia Gualandris |   | 377 | 
| A |   | Educational and N-Body Websites by Francesco Cacelliere and Vicki Johnson and Sverre Aarseth |   | 391 | 
|   |   | References |   | 397 | 
|   |   | Index |   | 399 |