Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and a mysterious lady
History and Philosophy of Physics
2008-01-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Chaotic Dynamics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
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.
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@article{arxiv.0801.1590,
title = {Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and a mysterious lady},
author = {Thierry Dauxois},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1590},
year = {2008}
}