Mathematician:Stanisław Marcin Ulam

Mathematician
Polish-American mathematician who participated in America's Manhattan Project.

Originated the Teller-Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons.

Invented the Monte Carlo method of computation.

Suggested the concept of nuclear pulse propulsion.

Also worked in the fields of both pure and applied mathematics.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: 3 April 1909 in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine)
 * Died: 13 May 1984 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Borsuk-Ulam Theorem (with )
 * Mazur-Ulam Theorem (with )
 * Kuratowski-Ulam Theorem (with )
 * Hyers-Ulam-Rassias Stability (with and )
 * Ulam Spiral
 * Ulam Conjecture (Number Theory)
 * Ulam Conjecture (Graph Theory)
 * Ulam's Packing Conjecture
 * Ulam's Game
 * Ulam Matrix
 * Ulam Numbers

Publications

 * 1960: A Collection of Mathematical Problems
 * 1968: Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects (with )
 * 1983: Adventures of a Mathematician (autobiography)
 * 1986: Science, Computers, and People: From the Tree of Mathematics.