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  2. Stanisław Marcin Ulam ([sta'ɲiswaf 'mart͡ɕin 'ulam]; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish Jewish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist. He participated in the Manhattan Project , originated the TellerUlam design of thermonuclear weapons , discovered the concept of the cellular automaton , invented the Monte Carlo ...

  3. May 9, 2024 · Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-born American mathematician who played a major role in the development of the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos when he and Edward Teller devised the Teller-Ulam configuration. With John von Neumann, he also devised the Monte Carlo method of problem solving.

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  4. Stanisław Marcin Ulam. Quick Info. Born. 13 April 1909. Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) Died. 13 May 1984. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Summary. Stan Ulam was a Polish-American mathematician who solved the problem of how to initiate fusion in the hydrogen bomb.

  5. Stanislaw Ulam. (1909 - 1984) Stanislaw Marcin Ulam was born in Lvov, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He was part of the city's Polish majority. His mentor in mathematics was Stefan Banach, a great Polish mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lvov School of Mathematics.

  6. May 15, 1984 · Stanislaw M. Ulam, who has been described as one of the greatest contemporary mathematicians and who played a key role in developing the hydrogen bomb, died Sunday in Santa Fe, N.M., after...

  7. ULAM, STANISLAW MARCIN (1909–1984), mathematician. Ulam was born in Lvov, Poland (then Austro-Hungary), and educated at the Lvov Polytechnic Institute, receiving his doctorate in mathematics in 1933. In 1935 he was invited to work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

  8. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Stanislaw Ulam. views 3,571,349 updated. Stanislaw Ulam. 1909-1984. Polish-born American mathematician. Ulam was educated at the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw, where his mathematics teachers challenged him with special problems in set theory after realizing the extent of his mathematical talents.

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