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Stanislaw Ulam
Stanislaw Marcin Ulam
(April 13,
1909
to
May 13,
1984)
was a Polish mathematican.
He made important contributions in mathematics, including in the areas of
algebraic topology, ergodic theory, number theory and set theory,
as well in physics, especially nuclear physics and the study of
dynamical systems. He may also have been the first person
to propose the idea
of a technological singularity;
in
1958,
the year after John von Neumann's death, Ulam described
a conversation that the two of them had once had on this topic.
Ulam contributed to the Manhattan Project,
and together with Edward Teller proposed the
Teller-Ulam design for thermonuclear weapons
(known publically for 30 years as the "Teller-Ulam H-bomb secret").
Although Edward Teller is often popularly know as the father of the H-bomb,
according to the German-American physicist and Nobel laureate, Hans Albrecht Bethe,
(who also worked on the project), it would be more accurate to say that
"Ulam is the father, because he provided the seed, and Teller is the mother, because he remained with the child."
(The exact contributions of Ulam of Edward Teller,
and how the Teller-Ulam design was arrived at,
has been a matter of public and private dispute since the 1950s).
Stanislaw Ulam was the first person to conceive of external nuclear
pulse propulsion, which is of course the basic idea behind Project Orion. Apparently
he began to think about using atomic bombs as a means of propulsion, the day
after the Trinity atomic bomb test in
1945,
and had thought of the idea of external nuclear pulse propulsion by
1946.
At the end of his life, Ulam declared that this was the invention of which he was
most proud.
Here are some books by or about Stanislaw Ulam:
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By Stanislaw M. Ulam
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Ulam, famous for his solution to the difficulties of initiating fusion in the hydrogen bomb, devised the well-known Monte-Carlo method. Here he presents challenges in the areas of set theory, algebra, metric and topological spaces, and topological groups. Issues in analysis, physical systems, and the use of computers as a heuristic aid are also addressed.
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Richard Feynman, John Von Neumann, Martin Gardner, John Horton Conway, Stephen Wolfram, Stanislaw Ulam, Edgar F. Codd, Matthew Cook, Joseph Nechvatal, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Mary Ann Horton, Voja Antonić, Rudy Rucker, Charles Platt, David Eppstein, Brosl Hasslacher, Edward Fredkin, Norman White, Brian Goodwin, Noam Elkies, Peter S. Albin, Charles H. Bennett, Manuel de Landa, Norman Packard, Bill Gosper, Alvy Ray Smith, Stephen R. Bourne, Edward F. Moore, Jack Corliss, Steve Omohundro, Cosma Shalizi, Christopher Langton, Melanie Mitchell, Don Hopkins, Mike Lesser, Ed Pegg, Jr., Andrei Toom, Tommaso Toffoli, Eric Goles, John Myhill, Simon P. Norton, Jarkko Kari, Gustav A. Hedlund. Excerpt: Alvy Ray Smith III (born 8 September 1943) is an American engineer and noted pioneer in computer graphics . Biography In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University . In 1970 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University , with a dissertation on cellular automata . From 1969 to 1973 he was an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at New York University . While at Xerox PARC in 1974, he worked with Dick Shoup on SuperPaint , one of the very first computer paint programs. Smith's major contribution to this software was the creation of the HSV color space . In 1975, Smith was recruited to join the new Computer Graphics Laboratory at New York Institute of Technology , one of the leading computer graphics research groups of the 1970s. There he worked on a series of newer paint programs, including the first 24 bit one ( Paint3 ); as part of this work, he co-invented the concept of the alpha channel . He was also the programmer for Ed Emshwiller 's pioneering animation Sunstone . He worked at NYIT unt... |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stanislaw Ulam, Roald Hoffmann, Billy Wilder, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Karl Radek, Hugo Steinhaus, Melanie Klein, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Moise Kisling, Isaac Deutscher, Alexander Beliavsky, Lee Strasberg, Jacob Frank, Eliot Spitzer, Moses Schorr, Simon Wiesenthal, Leo Birinski, Martin Buber, Eric Kandel, Łucja Frey, Abba Hushi, Richard Von Mises, Salo Flohr, Bruno Schulz, Robert Kronfeld, Henryk Grossman, Jacob Itzhak Niemirower, Franciszek Zachara, Mordechai Rokeach, Edmond Wilhelm Brillant, Arthur Hertzberg, Arthur Frank Burns, Ben Zion Halberstam, Helena Rubinstein, Aharon Rokeach, Muhammad Asad, Lewis Bernstein Namier, Salomon Buber, Meir Balaban, Elimelech of Lizhensk, Israel Zolli, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Daniel Yanofsky, Ira Schnapp, Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Samuel Yellin, Emanuel Feuermann, Joseph Roth, František Kriegel, Salo Landau, Moses Horowitz, Chaim Elazar Spira, Walter Krivitsky, Mikhail Fridman, Julia Brystiger, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Efraim Racker, Ostap Ortwin, Adam Ulam, Mieczysław Horszowski, David Josef Bach, Mordechai Gebirtig, Siegmund Glücksmann, Joseph Samuel Bloch, Aryeh Leib Hacohen Heller, Avigdor Aptowitzer, Nahman Avigad, Morris Gutstein, Joshua Falk, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Nachman Krochmal, Leo Aryeh Mayer, Salo Wittmayer Baron, Hersch Lauterpacht, Max Margules, Henry Roth, Manfred Sakel, Jakub Karol Parnas, Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, Elisabeth Bergner, Ignaz Friedman, List of Galician Jews, Emanuel Ax, Heinrich Schenker, Michael Dorfman, Rose Rand, Moshe Teitelbaum, Max Judd, Simhah Pinsker, Leopold Trepper, Wiktor Brillant, Isaac Erter, Kalman Kahana, Adolf Beck, Georges Charpak, Izak Aloni, Haim Nathan Dembitzer, Edward Gerstenfeld, Velvel Zbarjer, Leopold Infeld, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Dov Beris... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21378255 |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stanisław Lem, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Stefan Banach, Stanislaw Ulam, Wojciech Kilar, Andrzej Żuławski, Karl Radek, Hugo Steinhaus, Stanisław Leszczyński, Alexander Beliavsky, Elena Vesnina, Zbigniew Herbert, Roman Shukhevych, Ludwig Von Mises, Ruslana, Richard Von Mises, Gabriela Zapolska, Larisa Neiland, Jacob Itzhak Niemirower, Józef Koffler, Michał Boym, Alexius Meinong, Jacek Kuroń, Stepan Czmil, Oleh Luzhny, Jerzy Sosnowski, Roman Rosdolsky, Muhammad Asad, John Lhotsky, Grigory Yavlinsky, Salomon Buber, Kazimierz Papée, Meir Balaban, Alfred Redl, Taras Voznyak, Alfred J. Lotka, Wacław Stachiewicz, Josyf Slipyj, Adam Próchnik, Pyotr Valentinovich Trusov, Oleh Tyahnybok, Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Peter Rachman, Wojciech Bobowski, Ivan Krypiakevych, Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, Bohdan Stashynsky, Mikhail Fridman, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz Sendzimir, Victoria Kovalchuk, Jan Łukasiewicz, Vasyl Barvinsky, Adam Ulam, Mieczysław Horszowski, David Josef Bach, Jerzy Jan Lerski, Kazimierz Górski, Reuvein Margolies, Alojzy Ehrlich, Jan Parandowski, Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Lubomyr Husar, Stepan Fedak, Juliusz Zulauf, Jakub Karol Parnas, Dmytro Dontsov, Emanuel Ax, Gabriela Moyseowicz, Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Michael Dorfman, Rose Rand, Taras Chornovil, Oleg Romanishin, Kyryl Studynsky, Stepan Popel, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Maurice Goldhaber, Edward Gerstenfeld, Kazimierz Bartel, Anatole Vakhnianyn, Moriz Rosenthal, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Josef Gerstmann, Jan Styka, John Gottowt, Stanisław Ostrowski, Abraham Lempel, Teodor Parnicki, Alfred Biłyk, Ignatz Von Popiel, Markiyan Shashkevych, Franz Doppler, Gideon Hausner, Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa, Jakob Gimpel, Leopold Spinner, Eugeniusz Romer, Siegfr... |
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This explorative insight into the life and legacy of the famous Polish mathematician reveals his background and focuses on current research inspired by Stanislaw's vision. The text includes two pieces written by Stanislaw and personal conversations on John von Newmann and Paul Erdos. |
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By Stanislaw M Ulam
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By Mark and Ulam, Stanislaw M. Kac
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By Stanislaw M Ulam
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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 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic changes of the postwar world. He was among the first to use and advocate computers for scientific research, originated ideas for the nuclear propulsion of space vehicles, and made fundamental contributions to many of today's most challenging mathematical projects. With his wide-ranging interests, Ulam never emphasized the importance of his contributions to the research that resulted in the hydrogen bomb. Now Daniel Hirsch and William Mathews reveal the true story of Ulam's pivotal role in the making of the "Super," in their historical introduction to this behind-the- scenes look at the minds and ideas that ushered in the nuclear age. An epilogue by Franoise Ulam and Jan Mycielski sheds new light on Ulam's character and mathematical originality. |
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