Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and the birth of experimental mathematics

Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stanislaw Ulam's discovery of numerical experiment of nonlinear problem continues to inspire researchers. The Los Alamos scientists call this problem as MANIAC (MAthematical Numerical Integrator And Computer) and performs brute force numerical computations. Fermi,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Porter, M, Zabusky, N, Hu, B, Campbell, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009