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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- Subject: Re: GENIUS: Life/Science of Richard Feynman
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:16:43 GMT
- References: <1dpvuaINNrh7@agate.berkeley.edu> <28054@castle.ed.ac.uk> <BALDWIN.92Nov12131155@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> <97490@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov13.125015.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: parson_r@cubldr.colorado.edu (Robert Parson)
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- In article <1992Nov13.125015.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>, parson_r@cubldr (Robert Parson) writes:
- >> So naturally Wilson ended up working on the 3-dimensional Ising
- >> model--and his solution was the heart of his own 1982 Nobel winning
- >> work.
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- > But this is wrong. Wilson worked with Gell-Mann, but on quantum field theory.
-
- Hey, I didn't give dates, now did I?
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- > He didn't get back to critical phenomena until about 15 years later. And
- > neither he nor anyone else has "solved" the 3d ising in the sense of getting
- > an analytic solution (as Onsager did for the 2d case) although there are
- > plenty of accurate numerical solutions.
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- Hey again. _HIS_ solution was the heart of his 1982 Nobel winning work.
- It wasn't analytic, and it wasn't yet another numerical simulation.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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