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

Weissert, Thomas P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038798237X ISBN 13: 9780387982373

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

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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Intended for a broad audience of scientifically literate readers, this book show how the modern theory of dynamics and simulation developed alongside the modern electronic computer. It shows how many of the new and now standard techniques of nonlinear modeling and numerical simulation arose in response to specific problems. No other text focuses so tightly and covers so completely one specific, pernicious problem at the heart of dynamics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038798237X
• ISBN 13: 9780387982373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176