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During his forty-year association with the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam wrote many Laboratory
Reports, usually in collaboration with colleagues. Some of them
remain classified to this day. The rest are gathered in this volume
and for the first time are easily accesible to mathematicians,
physical scientists, and historians. The timeliness of these papers
is remarkable. They contain seminal ideas in such fields as
nonlinear stochastic processes, parallel computation, cellular
automata, and mathematical biology. The collection is of historical
interest as well, During and after World War II, the complexity of
problems at the frontiers of science surpassed any technology that
had ever existed. Electronic computing machines had to be developed
and new computing methods had to be invented based on the most
abstract ideas from the foundations of mathematics and theoretical
physics. To these problems and others in physics, astronomy, and
biology, Ulam was able to bring both general insights and specific
conceptual contributions. His fertile ideas were far ahead of their
time, and ranged over many branches of science. In fact, his
mathematical versatility fulfilled the statement of his friend and
mentor, the great Polish mathematician Stefan Banach, who claimed
that the very best mathematicians see "analogies between
analogies." Introduced by A. R. Bednarek and Francoise Ulam, these
Los Alamos reports represent a unique view of one of the twentieth
century's intellectual masters and scientific pioneers. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1990.
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Adventures of a Mathematician (Paperback)
S.M. Ulam; Introduction by Daniel Hirsch, William G. Mathews; Contributions by Francoise Ulam, Jan Mycielski
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This 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. It includes an
epilogue by Francoise Ulam and Jan Mycielski that sheds new light
on Ulam's character and mathematical originality.
During his forty-year association with the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam wrote many Laboratory
Reports, usually in collaboration with colleagues. Some of them
remain classified to this day. The rest are gathered in this volume
and for the first time are easily accesible to mathematicians,
physical scientists, and historians. The timeliness of these
papers is remarkable. They contain seminal ideas in such fields as
nonlinear stochastic processes, parallel computation, cellular
automata, and mathematical biology. The collection is of historical
interest as well, During and after World War II, the complexity of
problems at the frontiers of science surpassed any technology that
had ever existed. Electronic computing machines had to be developed
and new computing methods had to be invented based on the most
abstract ideas from the foundations of mathematics and theoretical
physics. To these problems and others in physics, astronomy,
and biology, Ulam was able to bring both general insights and
specific conceptual contributions. His fertile ideas were far ahead
of their time, and ranged over many branches of science. In fact,
his mathematical versatility fulfilled the statement of his friend
and mentor, the great Polish mathematician Stefan Banach, who
claimed that the very best mathematicians see "analogies between
analogies."Â Introduced by A. R. Bednarek and Francoise Ulam,
these Los Alamos reports represent a unique view of one of the
twentieth century's intellectual masters and scientific
pioneers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press’s
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.
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