Stanisław Ulam
Biography
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ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN Official Trailer (2020) Stan Ulam biography
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Stanislaw UIam & the H-Bomb
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Edward Teller - Ulam's calculations showed faults in our approach to the Hydrogen bomb (103/147)
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Edward Teller - Worries as John von Neumann confirms Ulam's calculations (104/147)
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Edward Teller - Discussing the compression ideas with Ulam (106/147)
Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and suggested nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and applied mathematics, he proved some theorems and proposed several conjectures.
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Personal
Poland
Coming to the United States of America
Manhattan Project
Hydrodynamical calculations of implosion
Statistics of branching and multiplicative processes
Post war Los Alamos
Monte Carlo method
Teller–Ulam design
Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem
Nuclear propulsion
Return to academia
Challenge to economics
Impact and legacy