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Among Fermi’s scientific articles “Studies of non-linear problems” , written in collaboration with J. Pasta and S. Ulam, is considered as being particularly important [1]. Following a common procedure among the people working in dynamical systems we shall refer to this work using the acronym Fpu. The article, written as an internal report of the Los Alamos Laboratories, was completed in May 1955, after Fermi’s death, but appeared for the first time in 1965, as contribution N. 266 to “Note e Memorie” (Collected Papers), an anthology of Fermi’s writings edited among others by Emilio Segrè and published jointly by the Accademia dei Lincei and the University of Chicago [2].
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Falcioni, M., Vulpiani, A. (2004). Enrico Fermis’s contribution to non-linear systems: The influence of an unpublished article. In: Bernardini, C., Bonolis, L. (eds) Enrico Fermi. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01160-7_15
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