Long way from the FPU-problem to chaos.
This paper provides some historical comments on the study of the Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam (FPU) paper and its influence on the development of the theory of chaos. We also discuss some problems raised in the FPU paper and the links of these problems to such contemporary notions in chaos theory as ergodicity, mixing, recurrences, pseudochaos, kinetics, intermittency, etc.
Zaslavsky
G M
GM
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, USA.
D007700:Kinetics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010825:Physics / Q000379:methods*