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Los Alamos Science No. 15, 1987
Special Issue, Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984
| Stan Ulam, brilliant mathematician, participant in the Manhattan Project, and co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb, was one of those extraordinary men who solidified LANL's early reputation. Stan left a legacy in mathematics, physics, and biology, reflecting his immense intelligence and gift for abstraction. He was a catalyst for new programs at LANL and offered novel ideas even to fields he knew little about. In this volume, mathematicians and physicists who were very close to Stan describe his influence on their way of thinking. Their own contributions to fields in which Stan played a seminal role-from probability theory and nonlinear systems to the Monte Carlo method, heuristic mathematics, and DNA sequence analysis- were also discussed. In the closing section of this volume, called "The Ulam Touch-Unpublished Items," the reader gets a direct feel for Ulam's irrepressible wit and imagination. |
| Table of Contents | PDF Size | Cover and Table of Contents
| 462 kB | Stan Ulam: Esquisse
Francoise Ulam | 815 kB | Stan Ulam: Vita—Excerpts from Adventures of a Mathematician
S. M. Ulam | 3389 kB | Stan Ulam: The Lost Cafe
Gian-Carlo Rota | 1585 kB | Stan Ulam: From Above the Fray
Carson Mark | 190 kB | The Ulam Legacy: Mathematics
| 1512 kB | The Spirit of Play--A Memoir for Stan Ulam
David Hawkins | 1448 kB | Probability and Nonlinear Systems
R. Daniel Mauldin | 3949 kB | Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory--An Ulamian Potpourri
Paul R. Stein | 1783 kB | Learning from Ulam: Measurable Cardinals, Ergodicity, and Biomathematics
Jan Mycielski | 1141 kB | A Similarity Measure for Graphs—Reflections on a Theme of Ulam
Ronald L. Graham | 803 kB | The Ulam Legacy: Physics
| 931 kB | The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method
N. Metropolis | 899 kB | Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method
Roger Eckhardt | 1404 kB | Early Work in Numerical Hydrodynamics
Francis H. Harlow | 13 kB | Instabilities and Turbulence
Didier Besnard, Francis H. Harlow, Norman L. Johnson, Rick Rauenzahn, and Jonathan Wolfe | 4837 kB | Discrete Fluids
Brosl Hasslacher | 6142 kB | Nonlinear Science-From Paradigms to Practicalities
David K. Campbell | 5747 kB | The Ergodic Hypothesis: A Complicated Problem of Mathematics and Physics
Adrian Patrascioiu | 1948 kB | The Ulam Legacy: Biology
| 835 kB | Reflections on the Brain’s Attempts To Understand Itself
S. M. Ulam | 714 kB | Sequence Analysis—Contributions by Ulam to Molecular Genetics
Walter B. Goad | 218 kB | The Ulam Touch
| 447 kB | A Memorable Memo
J. Carson Mark and S. M. Ulam | 72 kB | Sub Rosa--A Trialogue
S. M. Ulam | 367 kB | Conversations with Rota
transcribed and edited by Francoise Ulam | 94 kB | The Publications of Stanislaw M. Ulam
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