Stanisław Ulam facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Stanisław Ulam
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Stanisław Ulam
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Stanisław Marcin Ulam
13 April 1909 |
| Died | 13 May 1984 (aged 75) Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
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| Nationality | Polish |
| Citizenship | Poland, United States (awarded 1941) |
| Education | Lwów Polytechnic Institute, Second Polish Republic |
| Known for | Mathematical formulations in the fields of Physics, Computer Science, and Biology Teller–Ulam design Monte Carlo method Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem Nuclear pulse propulsion |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University University of Wisconsin Los Alamos National Laboratory University of Colorado University of Florida |
| Doctoral advisor | Kazimierz Kuratowski |
| Doctoral students | Paul Kelly |
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909 – May 13, 1984) was a Polish mathematician who took part in the Manhattan Project and proposed the design of Teller-Ulam of the thermonuclear weapons.
He also invented the nuclear propulsion to pulse and he developed a number of mathematical tools in the theory of numbers, set theory, ergodic theory and algebraic topology. Above all, he is known by being a coauthor (with Nicholas Metropolis) of the Monte Carlo Method.
Images for kids
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The Scottish Café's building now houses the Universal Bank in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Stan Ulam holding the FERMIAC
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Ivy Mike, the first full test of the Teller–Ulam design (a staged fusion bomb), with a yield of 10.4 megatons on 1 November 1952
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The Sausage device of Mike nuclear test (yield 10.4 Mt) on Enewetak Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Ivy. The Sausage was the first true H-Bomb ever tested, meaning the first thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion.
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An artist's conception of the NASA reference design for the Project Orion spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion
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When the positive integers are arrayed along the Ulam spiral, prime numbers, represented by dots, tend to collect along diagonal lines.
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An animation demonstrating the lucky number sieve. The numbers in red are lucky numbers
See also
In Spanish: Stanisław Ulam para niños
