Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 1 (2005), 005, 7 pages      nlin.SI/0510055      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2005.005

Andrew Lenard: A Mystery Unraveled

Jeffery Praught and Roman G. Smirnov
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5

Received September 29, 2005, in final form October 03, 2005; Published online October 08, 2005

Abstract
The theory of bi-Hamiltonian systems has its roots in what is commonly referred to as the ``Lenard recursion formula''. The story about the discovery of the formula told by Andrew Lenard is the subject of this article.

Key words: Lenard's recursion formula; bi-Hamiltonian formalism; Korteweg-de Vries equation.

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