2005/01/31 by Thierry Dauxois, Michel Peyrard, Stefano Ruffo · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #History and Theory of Mathematics #History of Computing Technologies #History of computing #History of physics #History of science #MATLAB #Numerical methods for differential equations #Physics education #Simple (philosophy) #nlin.CD #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0143-0807/26/5/s01
published as European Journal of Physics 26, S3-S11 (2005)
arxiv created 2005/03/22 · openalex publication_date 2005/07/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The pioneering Fermi–Pasta–Ulam (FPU) numerical experiment played a major role in the history of computer simulation because it introduced this concept for the first time. Moreover, it raised a puzzling question which was answered more than 10 years later. After an introduction to this problem, we briefly review its history and then suggest some simple numerical experiments, with the Matlab© code provided, to study various aspects of the 'FPU' problem.