Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and a mysterious lady

2008/01/10 by Thierry Dauxois · 1 voice · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.stat-mech #nlin.CD #nlin.PS #nlin.SI #physics.hist-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.2835154

published as Physics Today 61, 1 (2008) 55-57

Abstract

It is reported that the numerical simulations of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem were performed by a young lady, Mary Tsingou. After 50 years of omission, it is time for a proper recognition of her decisive contribution to the first ever numerical experiment, central in the solitons and chaos theories, but also one of the very first out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics study. Let us quote from now on the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou problem.

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