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    Stanisław Marcin Ulam ([sta'ɲiswaf 'mart͡ɕin 'ulam]; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish Jewish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist...
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    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 (1976, p. 281) rediscovered the game, presenting the idea that there...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    originated as Project Orion with support from DARPA, after a suggestion by Stanislaw Ulam in 1947. Newer designs using inertial confinement fusion have been the...
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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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  • high school, on or around August 20, 1939, his 13-years-older brother Stanisław Ulam, a famous mathematician and key contributor to the Manhattan Project...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • (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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    movie theater in the Netherlands – the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam. Stanisław Ulam: mathematician, representing the Lwów School of Mathematics, one of...
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  • In mathematics, the Kuratowski–Ulam theorem, introduced by Kazimierz Kuratowski and Stanislaw Ulam (1932), called also the Fubini theorem for category...
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