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The Genesis of Simulation in Dynamics. Pursuing the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem.
Weissert, Thomas P. (Rosemont, Pa, Usa)
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Paperback. A treatment of modern dynamics. It discusses such problems as the nonlinear oscillator simulation, the seminal discoveries at MIT in the early 1950s, the mathematical rediscovery of solitons later that decade and general problems of computability. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBW; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 308.
We hear a lot about dynamical systems theory these days-"chaos dy namics" is the popular idiom-but very little of this abstract discipline is taught in undergraduate or even in graduate school, unless that happens to be one's own field. People may have heard some of the terms, but they may not understand what a dynamicist does. Just what does a dynamicist do? Although I've been through the training, I spend much more time talk ing and thinking about dynamics than actually doing it, which is a circum stance that affords me an interesting perspective. Some time after defending my dissertation, ... Read more
We hear a lot about dynamical systems theory these days-"chaos dy namics" is the popular idiom-but very little of this abstract discipline is taught in undergraduate or even in graduate school, unless that happens to be one's own field. People may have heard some of the terms, but they may not understand what a dynamicist does. Just what does a dynamicist do? Although I've been through the training, I spend much more time talk ing and thinking about dynamics than actually doing it, which is a circum stance that affords me an interesting perspective. Some time after defending my dissertation, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387982373
SKU
V9780387982373
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