Etymology

Toda oscillator

Today it means: A special kind of nonlinear oscillator, representing a chain of particles with exponential potential interaction between neighbors, and used as a simple model to understand the phenomenon of self-pulsation. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Morikazu Toda.

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