Hidden gems

A scientific treasure trove...

Do you have a work you're really proud of, but that seems to have got buried? Let us know about it here!

If you'd like to add (up to 2) items, please send them to ashleypwillis/at/gmail.com, following the format below as closely as possible

 ==== Danger Mouse ====
 * D. Mouse and E. Penfold (1983), ''How not to take over the world'', Spy Weekly [http://www.spyweekly.co.uk]
 :: My favourite plans for world domination, foiled.

Laurette Tuckerman

• L. S. Tuckerman (1989), Transformations of matrices into banded form, Journal of Computational Physics [1] or [2].

One way to look at why recursion relations are so widespread.

• L. S. Tuckerman (2001), Thermosolutal and binary fluid convection as a 2x2 matrix problem, Physica D [3] or [4].

How nonlinear and linear problems actually obey analogous equations, based on eigenvalues undergoing avoided crossing or else becoming complex conjugate pairs.

Ashley P. Willis

• A. P. Willis (2012), Optimization of the magnetic dynamo, Physical Review Letters [5] or [6].

Probably a bit early to say this has gone unnoticed really, I'm just impatient to see what it could lead to. How to find the lowest Rm for a large-scale dynamo, along with the velocity field that makes this possible, here for a periodic box.