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

By Thomas P. Weissert

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1997
ISBN
9780387982366, 9780387982366
Open Library ID
OL7449610M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (9723765 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
184\184
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

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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