Stanislaw Ulam
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[ Stanislaw Ulam [1] Stanisław Marcin Ulam, (April 13, 1909 – May 13, 1984)
a Polish mathematician, known for his participation in the Manhattan Project , the Teller-Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons and the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam experiment. A group of H-bomb researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory around Stanislaw Ulam, Paul Stein, Mark Wells and John Pasta developed the chess-playing program [2] [3] for the MANIAC I by John von Neumann and Nicholas Metropolis. It played Los Alamos Chess on a 6×6 board without bishops.
Fred Guterl
by Fred Guterl from Silicon gambit [4] :
Aviezri Fraenkel
by Aviezri Fraenkel [5] [6] :
John McCarthy
Quote by John McCarthy from Human-Level AI is harder than it seemed in 1955 on the Dartmouth workshop:
Selected Publications
- Nicholas Metropolis, Stanislaw Ulam (1949). The Monte Carlo Method. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 44, No. 247, pdf [7] [8]
- Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam (1957). Experiments in chess on electronic computing machines. Chess Review, 13 January 1957.
- James Kister, Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam, William Walden, Mark Wells (1957). Experiments in Chess. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 4, No. 2
- Mary Tsingou-Menzel, Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam (1959). Quadratic Transformations: Part I. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory report LA-2305, republished in Stanislaw Ulam (1990). Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators. Berkeley: University of California Press
- Stanislaw Ulam (1976). Adventures of a mathematician. amazon.com, University of California Press
- Stanislaw Ulam (1986). Science, Computers, and People - From the Tree of Mathematics. edited by Mark C. Reynolds, Gian-Carlo Rota (eds), Birkhäuser
Paul Stein (1986). Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts.
- Nicholas Metropolis (1987). The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method. Los Alamos Science Special, pdf
- Editor (1987). Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984. Los Alamos Science, No. 15
Gian-Carlo Rota (1987). The Lost Café. pdf Paul Stein (1987). Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri. pdf
- Necia Grant Cooper (ed.) (1989). From Cardinals to Chaos: Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Stanislaw Ulam. Cambridge University Press
- Stanislaw Ulam (1990). Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators. Berkeley: University of California Press
- Aviezri Fraenkel (2013). Reflection. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1 » Monte-Carlo Tree Search
See also
External Links
- Stanislaw Ulam from Wikipedia
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Stanisław Ulam
- Human-Level AI is harder than it seemed in 1955 by John McCarthy
- Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin (1909-1984) from The Internet Encyclopedia of Science
- Quotations by Stanislaw Ulam
- Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives by Gennady Gorelik
- Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem from Wikipedia
- Ulam’s game from Wikipedia
- Ulam number from Wikipedia
References
- ↑ Stanislaw Ulam, circa 1945, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Wikimedia Commons, Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.
- ↑ Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam (1957). Experiments in chess on electronic computing machines. Chess Review, 13 January 1957.
- ↑ James Kister, Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam, William Walden, Mark Wells (1957). Experiments in Chess. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 4, No. 2
- ↑ Silicon gambit by Fred Guterl, Discover, June 01, 1996
- ↑ Aviezri Fraenkel (2013). Reflection. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1
- ↑ Nicholas Metropolis, Stanislaw Ulam (1949). The Monte Carlo Method. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 44, pp. 335–341
- ↑ Herbert L. Anderson (1986). Metropolis, Monte Carlo, and the MANIAC. Los Alamos Science, pdf
- ↑ Monte Carlo History by Dario Bressanini