Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and a mysterious lady
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.
Domains
Physics [physics] Physics [physics] History of Physics [physics.hist-ph] Nonlinear Sciences [physics] Pattern Formation and Solitons [nlin.PS] Nonlinear Sciences [physics] Chaotic Dynamics [nlin.CD] Nonlinear Sciences [physics] Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems [nlin.SI] Physics [physics] Condensed Matter [cond-mat] Statistical Mechanics [cond-mat.stat-mech]
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