Written by Thierry Dauxois

Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and a mysterious lady

Thierry Dauxois

http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/thierry.dauxois/PAPERS/pt61_55.2008.pdf

The computations for the first-ever numerical experiment were performed by a young woman named Mary Tsingou. After decades of omission, it is time to recognize her contribution Thierry Dauxois  (thierry.dauxois@ens-lyon.fr) is a CNRS research director at École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France.

This paper was published in Physics Today in January 2008.