A fairly classical (and pretty old dated at that) example is the study of solitons which was to a large extent triggered by the numerical solving of sloving numerically the so-called Fermi--Pasta--Ulam chain and then of its continuous limit, the Korteweg--de Vries equation. It would not be much of exaggeration to say that the whole modern theory of integrable systems grew out of this. For more details see e.g. the Wikipedia entry on solitons and the first chapter of the book Solitons in Mathematics and Physics by Alan Newell.
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A fairly classical (and pretty old at that) example is the study of solitons which was to a large extent triggered by the numerical solving of the so-called Fermi--Pasta--Ulam chain and then of its continuous limit, the Korteweg--de Vries equation. It would not be much of exaggeration to say that the whole modern theory of integrable systems grew out of this. For more details see e.g. the Wikipedia entry on solitons and the first chapter of the book Solitons in Mathematics and Physics by Alan Newell. |
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