Feynman's work with Partial Differential equations for chip design

[Yaj Bhattacharya]

Hello,
I am looking for references to Feynamn's application of partial
differential equations for chip design (or Computer Science in
general). The following article hints at such work by Feynman:
http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php

Thanks in advance
Yaj Bhattacharya

[Raymond Manzoni]

Yaj Bhattacharya a écrit :
> Hello,
> I am looking for references to Feynamn's application of partial
> differential equations for chip design (or Computer Science in
> general). The following article hints at such work by Feynman:
> http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php
>
> Thanks in advance
> Yaj Bhattacharya
>

Hello,

Two related books about computer science and Feynman are :
"Feynman's lecture on computation" from Feynman himself :
http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Computation-Frontiers-Physics-Richard/dp/0201489910/
and a follow-up concerning related subjects with anecdotes about
Feynman including the story of his work on the connection machine :
"Feynman and computation" (see chapter 17 without the D.E. sorry...)
http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Computation-Exploring-Computers-advanced/dp/0738200573/

His paper "Simulating Physics with Computers" is available for
example here :
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/papers/feynman82/feynman82.pdf

and a search of this paper on google should return you other related
papers like http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~demmer/papers/feynman.pdf


Fine discovery!
Raymond

[Raymond Manzoni]

Yaj Bhattacharya a écrit :
> Hello,
> I am looking for references to Feynamn's application of partial
> differential equations for chip design (or Computer Science in
> general). The following article hints at such work by Feynman:
> http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php
>
> Thanks in advance
> Yaj Bhattacharya
>

In fact the chapter 17 of "Feynman and computation" contains simply
the previous paper sorry...
If you want to know more about the "connection machine" you may look
at the William Daniel Hillis work here
http://stochastix.wordpress.com/tag/computers/
especially his thesis (1988) "The connection machine" :
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14719

Fine lecture!
Raymond