Blackcap on Mythryl: “And I knew her as a teen, because both our families lived in Los…”

And I knew her as a teen, because both our families lived in Los Alamos and she was my mother’s best friend since high school. She never boasted about her accomplishments.

Nigel Goldenfeld@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social

🧪⚛️Mary Tsingou Menzel is her name. Her discovery, collaborating with Fermi, Pasta, Ulam was a surprise. The first computational test of a foundation of statistical mechanics (equipartition). It failed. This work was fundamental to the development of nonlinear dynamics and applied mathematics.

nytimes.comMathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died (Gift Article)At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.

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