· Stanislaw Ulam was a prominent twentieth-century mathematician, famous for inventing Monte Carlo methods -- and co-inventing the hydrogen bomb. This is not quite an autobiography. It's one part memoir, one part musings on science and mathematics, and /5. 6 rows · He said that in Poland people talked foolishly about important things, and in England intelligently /5. The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively 4/5(1).
Ulam, Stanislaw M: Adventures Of a Mathematician revd by Martin Gardner; Ulam illus. ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN is a fascinating period drama. Based on parts of an autobiography, it focuses on Stanislaw Ulam, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th Century. Stan is a Polish scientist at Harvard in , who becomes involved in the development of the atom and hydrogen bombs during World War II and the Cold War. The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic changes of the postwar world.
Stanisław Marcin Ulam ([sta'ɲiswaf 'mart͡ɕin 'ulam]; 13 April – 13 May ) was a Polish scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and suggested nuclear pulse propulsion. The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively. S. M. Ulam() was born in Poland and was a key member of the now legendary Polish School of Mathematics. In the United States from on, he received many academic appointments and honors and authored many articles, essays, and mathematical books, including Analogies between Analogies(California, ).
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