Definition:Soliton/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Soliton
Solitons were first observed by John Scott Russell in $1834$.
They exhibit remarkable properties of stability.
Their existence was mathematically justified by the work of Diederik Johannes Korteweg and Gustav de Vries in $1895$
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): integrable system
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): integrable system