Stanisław Marcin Ulam (Polish: [sta'ɲiswaf 'mart͡ɕin 'ulam]; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist...
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Thermonuclear weapon (redirect from Teller-Ulam)
United States is known as the Teller–Ulam configuration for its two chief contributors, Edward Teller and Stanisław Ulam, who developed it in 1951 for the...
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The Ulam spiral or prime spiral is a graphical depiction of the set of prime numbers, devised by mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963 and popularized...
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Ulam may refer to: ULAM, the ICAO airport code for Naryan-Mar Airport, Russia Ulam (surname) Ulam (salad), a type of Malay salad Ulam, a Filipino term...
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Hungary's Bar Kokhba game, but the paper was overlooked for many years. Stanisław Ulam rediscovered the game, presenting the idea that there are a million...
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Ulam, Stanisław (1958). "John von Neumann 1903–1957" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (3): 1–49. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5. Ulam, Stanisław...
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distances are all rational numbers. It is named after Paul Erdős and Stanislaw Ulam. The Erdős–Anning theorem states that a set of points with integer distances...
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isometry, then f {\displaystyle f} is affine. It was proved by Stanisław Mazur and Stanisław Ulam in response to a question raised by Stefan Banach. For strictly...
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Borsuk (1933), where the formulation of the problem was attributed to Stanisław Ulam. Since then, many alternative proofs have been found by various authors...
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mathematics, the Ulam numbers comprise an integer sequence devised by and named after Stanislaw Ulam, who introduced it in 1964. The standard Ulam sequence (the...
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Borsuk–Ulam theorem Erdős–Ulam problem Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability Kuratowski–Ulam theorem Mazur–Ulam theorem Ulam's conjecture...
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Françoise Aron Ulam (March 8, 1918, in Paris, France — April 30, 2011) was the wife of Polish-American mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam, member of the Manhattan...
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proved from ZFC. The concept of a measurable cardinal was introduced by Stanisław Ulam in 1930. Formally, a measurable cardinal is an uncountable cardinal...
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Stefan Banach Feliks Barański Władysław Orlicz Stanisław Saks Hugo Steinhaus Stanisław Mazur Stanisław Ulam Józef Schreier Juliusz Schauder Mark Kac Antoni...
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In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated...
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The Teller–Ulam design is a technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs. The design – the details of which are...
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Ulam is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984), Polish-American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan...
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Physicist Stanislaw Ulam proposed the general idea of nuclear pulse propulsion in 1946, and preliminary calculations were made by Frederick Reines and Ulam in...
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automaton is named after the Polish-American mathematician and scientist Stanislaw Ulam and the Scottish engineer, inventor and amateur mathematician Mike Warburton...
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from the ENIAC. Among the others present was Los Alamos mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who was familiar with the use of statistical sampling techniques similar...
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Collatz conjecture (redirect from Ulam problem)
(or conjecture), the 3x + 1 problem (or conjecture), the Ulam conjecture (after Stanisław Ulam), Kakutani's problem (after Shizuo Kakutani), the Thwaites...
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research problems, particularly in functional analysis and topology. Stanisław Ulam recounts that the tables of the café had marble tops, so they could...
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referring to the bulk of zoology as the study of non-elephant animals. — Stanisław Ulam In mathematics, a linear map (or linear function) f ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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stability problem of functional equations originated from a question of Stanisław Ulam, posed in 1940, concerning the stability of group homomorphisms. In...
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December 2018). "Stanisław Ulam – Magician of Mathematics". culture.pl. Retrieved 30 April 2023. Walter Sullivan (15 May 1984). "STANISLAW ULAM, THEORIST ON...
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commemorated the 100th anniversary of Banach receiving his title of professor. Stanislaw Ulam, another mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics, in his autobiography...
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the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design based on Stanisław Ulam's design. Born in Austria-Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated...
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Casino in Monaco, where the primary developer of the method, physicist Stanislaw Ulam, was inspired by his uncle's gambling habits. Monte Carlo methods are...
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The Fermi–Ulam model (FUM) is a dynamical system that was introduced by Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1961. FUM is a variant of Enrico Fermi's...
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Stefan Banach. Banach himself wrote 14, plus another 11 with Stanisław Ulam and Mazur. Ulam wrote 40 problems and additional 15 ones with others. During...
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