%0 Journal Article %T An English Translation of BertrandĄŻs Theorem %A F. C. Santos %A V. Soares %A A. C. Tort %J Latin-American Journal of Physics Education %D 2011 %I Instituto Polit¨Ścnico Nacional, Latin American Physics Education Network %X A beautiful theorem due to J. L. F. Bertrand concerning the laws of attraction that admit bounded closed orbits for arbitrarily chosen initial conditions is translated from French into English. %K Classical Mechanics %K Orbits %U http://www.lajpe.org/dec11/LAJPE_600_Alexander_Tort_preprint_corr_f.pdf