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 Karol Borsuk)
• Mazur-Ulam Theorem (with Stanisław Meiczyslaw Mazur)
• Kuratowski-Ulam Theorem (with Kazimierz Kuratowski)
• Hyers-Ulam-Rassias Stability (with Donald Holmes Hyers and Themistocles Michael Rassias)
• Ulam Spiral
• Ulam Conjecture (Number Theory)
• Ulam Conjecture (Graph Theory)
• Ulam's Packing Conjecture
• Ulam's Game
• Ulam Matrix
• Ulam Numbers

Results named for Stanisław Marcin Ulam can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Stanisław Marcin Ulam can be found here.

Publications

• 1958: Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects (with Mark Kac)
• 1960: A Collection of Mathematical Problems
• 1983: Adventures of a Mathematician (autobiography)
• 1986: Science, Computers, and People: From the Tree of Mathematics.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Stanisław Marcin Ulam": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive