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The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics: Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

By Weissert T.

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1997
ISBN
0387982361, 9780387982366
LCC
QC133 .W45 1997
Open Library ID
OL663735M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1860328 bytes)
Pages
184\184
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2011-07-22 07:35:22

Description

An introduction to certain aspects of developments in the modern theory of dynamics and simulation for a wide audience of scientifically literate readers. Unlike general texts on chaos theory and dynamical systems theory, this book follows the work on a specific problem at the very beginning of the modern era of dynamics, from its inception in 1954 through the early 1970s. It discusses such problems as the nonlinear oscillator simulation, the seminal discoveries at MIT in the early 1950s, the mathematical rediscovery of solitons in the late 1950s and the general problems of computability. In following these developments, the initial development of many of the now standard techniques of nonlinear modelling and numerical simulation are seen. No other text focuses so tightly and covers so completely one specific, pernicious problem at the heart of dynamics.

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