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    Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (Greek: Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος; June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist. Metropolis received his...
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    is inherent in MCMC methods. The algorithm is named in part for Nicholas Metropolis, the first coauthor of a 1953 paper, entitled Equation of State Calculations...
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  • by Fast Computing Machines" is a scholarly article published by Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller...
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    Computer Model I) was an early computer built under the direction of Nicholas Metropolis at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It was based on the von...
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  • gambling. The term "Monte Carlo" was first introduced in 1947 by Nicholas Metropolis. Las Vegas algorithms are a dual of Monte Carlo algorithms and never...
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    quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules. In 1953, with Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and Augusta Teller, Teller...
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  • Metropolis light transport (MLT) is a global illumination application of a Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to the rendering...
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    Stanisław Ulam, John von Neumann, Pekka Myrberg, Oleksandr Sharkovsky, Nicholas Metropolis, and Mitchell Feigenbaum.[citation needed] In the logistic map, x...
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  • documented as well and released in November 2020. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory opens with Nicholas, a troubled man undergoing past life regression...
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  • film must have actors eventually leading to Kevin Bacon. Physicist Nicholas Metropolis has an Erdős number of 2, and also a Bacon number of 2 via the Woody...
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    Ulam required a code name. A colleague of von Neumann and Ulam, Nicholas Metropolis, suggested using the name Monte Carlo, which refers to the Monte...
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  • Mitchell suggested using IBM machines like his colleague Eckert. Nicholas Metropolis and Richard Feynman organized a punched-card solution, proving its...
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    development of the Monte Carlo method in computational physics by Nicholas Metropolis and Stanislaw Ulam. In fact, even for a homogeneous solid sphere...
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    problems, was named after the Casino de Monte-Carlo by physicist Nicholas Metropolis. CASINO, a quantum Monte Carlo method Casino, a portion of the Circuit...
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  • researchers Stanisław Ulam, Enrico Fermi, John von Neumann, and Nicholas Metropolis. The use of randomness and the repetitive nature of the process are...
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    detected: "one always fears the appearance of undetected short cycles". Nicholas Metropolis reported sequences of 750,000 digits before "destruction" by means...
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     158–167. ISBN 9783540694052. Eckert, J. Presper, The ENIAC (in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, (editors), A History of Computing in...
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  • notable contribution for the theory of Borel equivalence relations. Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999) - American born Greek physicist. Yiannis N. Moschovakis...
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    Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE (in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, (editors), A History of Computing in...
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    computers in the theoretical division. With Stanley Frankel and Nicholas Metropolis, he assisted in establishing a system for using IBM punched cards...
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  • Metropolis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Daniel Metropolis (born 1972), Australian rules footballer Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999)...
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  • developed by David A. Huffman 1953 – Simulated annealing introduced by Nicholas Metropolis 1954 – Radix sort computer algorithm developed by Harold H. Seward...
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    McMillan, physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American physicist and computer pioneer. Returned to Los Alamos...
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  • methods were Stanislaw Ulam, John von Neumann, Robert Richtmyer, and Nicholas Metropolis. Monte Carlo for radiation transport was conceived by Stanislaw Ulam...
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    Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang...
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    Astronomical Ephemeris 1968 (US Government Printing Office, 1966) Nicholas Metropolis (1987). "The beginning of the Monte Carlo method" (PDF). Los Alamos...
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  • exf6=Q Nc5 22.Qxd4+ Kc6 23.Ne5# 1–0 Anderson, Herbert L. (Fall 1986). "Metropolis, Monte Carlo, and the MANIAC" (PDF). Los Alamos Science: 104–105. Pritchard...
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  • arXiv:2303.08060. doi:10.1007/s10489-023-05240-w. ISSN 1573-7497. Nicholas, Metropolis; Stanislaw, Ulam (1949). "The monte carlo method". Journal of the...
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    Knuth & Pardo: The early development of programming languages. In Nicholas Metropolis (Ed): History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, p. 203. "Konrad...
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  • century, particularly in physics, marked by the Metropolis algorithm proposed by Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, Augusta...
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