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The Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) problem: A path to complexity
D. K. Campbell, Y. Meroz
297 - 310
10.3254/978-1-61499-071-0-297
Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"
Volume 176: Complex Materials in Physics and Biology
Abstract

The central theme of this lecture provides an interesting lesson in scientific discovery —how a “little discovery” led to an entire new field and a series of novel approaches to a range of phenomena in the natural world. In a sense that hopefully will be clear in the end, it is about “sensitivity to initial conditions,” which is singularly appropriate for a subject that involves “chaos”. An attempt has been made to follow the guidance of a master, the mathematician Mark Kac, who said that in lecturing it is important to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but not the whole truth.

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