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- Discusses such problems as the nonlinear oscillator simulation carried out by Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam at Los Alamos in the early 1950s; the mathematical rediscovery of solitons in the early 1960s; and the general problems of computability discussed by Kolmorogov, Arnold and Moser, by Ford, and by many others.
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Introduction
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Philosophy
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Book Title: The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics
Book Subtitle: Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem
Authors: Thomas P. Weissert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1956-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98236-6Published: 10 October 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98237-3Published: 10 October 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1956-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 176
Topics: Physics, general