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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Stanislaw Ulam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He was the first one to realize that you could place all the of H-bomb's components inside one casing, put a fission bomb at one end and thermonuclear material at the other, and use shock waves from the fisson bomb to compress and detonate a fusion fuel.
		Ulam developed the Monte Carlo Method for evaluating complicated mathematical integrals while working on theoretical problems during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
		Ulam also invented nuclear pulse propulsion, and at the end of his life, declared it the invention of which he was most proud.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/st/Stanislaw_Ulam (244 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Stanislaw Ulam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ulam was born in Lemberg, Poland (of the Austrian Empire, now Lvov, Ukraine) and went to school at the Polytechnic Institute, also in Lvov, where he received a DSc (a Doctor of Science) in mathematics in 1933.
		Ulam left Los Alamos in 1967 to become professor and chairman at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder until 1977.
		Ulam was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and received honorary degrees from the University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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	Stanislaw Marcin Ulam article - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam April 13 1909 13 1984 Polish American mathematician Poland ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ulam was born in Lwów, Poland (then in Galicja, autonomous province of Austria-Hungary, now L'viv, Ukraine).
		He was the first one to realize that you could place all the of H-bomb's components inside one casing, put a fission bomb at one end and thermonuclear material at the other, and use shock waves from the fission bomb to compress and detonate a fusion fuel.
		Ulam also invented nuclear pulse propulsion, and at the end of his life, declared it the invention of which he was most proud.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Ulam (408 words)

	Stanisław Marcin Ulam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanisław Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909–May 13, 1984) was a Polish mathematician who helped develop the Teller-Ulam design which powers the hydrogen bomb, as well as a number of other important mathematical tools.
		He was the first one to realize that one could put all of the H-bomb's components inside one casing, put a fission bomb at one end and thermonuclear material at the other, and use X-ray radiation from the fission bomb to compress and detonate fusion fuel.
		Ulam took a position at the University of Colorado in 1965.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam (834 words)

	stanislaw ulam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Stanislaw Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909 - May 13, 1984) was a Polish-American mathematician.
		Ulam was born in Lemberg, Poland, Austrian Empire (now L'viv, Ukraine).
		He was the first one to realize that you could place all the of H-bomb's components inside one casing, put a fission bomb at one end and thermonuclear material at the other, and use shock waves from the fisson bomb to compress and detonate a fusion fuel.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Stanislaw_Ulam.html (395 words)

	Professor Adam B. Ulam
		Ulam had a deeply personal understanding of the horrors of which human beings are capable, and he had very little sympathy for meliorative schemes of any kind.
		Ulam was an incisive and remarkably fecund scholar.
		Ulam was hard to pigeonhole intellectually, and he took some pleasure from this fact and from his independence of all orthodoxies and parties.
	www.aulam.org (4059 words)

	Stanisław Marcin Ulam - Wikipedia
		Stanislaw Ulam (Foto auf seinem Los-Alamos-Dienstausweis während des 2.
		Stanislaw Ulams Mathematiklehrer war der große polnische Mathematiker Stefan Banach, einer der führenden Köpfe der Lemberger Schule der Mathematiker.
		Ulam entwickelte gemeinsam mit John von Neumann die Monte-Carlo-Methode, um komplizierte mathematische Integrale auszuwerten, als er an theoretischen Problemen während des Manhattan-Projektes in Los Alamos arbeitete.
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		Stanislaw Ulam was born to a prosperous Polish-Jewish family in Lwow (Austrian occupied partition of Poland called then Lemberg; presently Lviv in Ukraine).
		In 1940 Ulam was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.
		Ulam was honored with such awards as the Sierpinski Medal, the Polish Millennium Prize, and the Polish American Congress Heritage Award, and was named the John von Neumann Lecturer of the Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics.
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	Ulam spiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ulam spiral, or prime spiral (in other languages also called Ulam cloth) is a simple method of graphing the prime numbers that reveals a pattern which has never been fully explained.
		It was discovered by the mathematician Stanislaw Marcin Ulam in 1963, while doodling on scratch paper at a scientific meeting.
		This was so significant, that the Ulam spiral appeared on the cover of Scientific American in March 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulam_spiral (313 words)

	Stanislaw Ulam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	Stanislaw Ulam \| Biography \| atomicarchive.com
		Stanislaw Marcin Ulam was born in Lvov, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine).
		Ulam went to the U.S. in 1938 as a Harvard Junior Fellow.
		Ulam took a position as chair of mathematics at the University of Colorado in 1965, but he remained a consultant at Los Alamos, dividing his time between Boulder, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, from which he commuted to Los Alamos.
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	Ulam biography
		An uncle gave Ulam a telescope when he was about 12 years old and later Ulam tried to understand Einstein's special theory of relativity.
		Ulam obtained his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov in 1933 where he studied under Banach.
		In 1940 Ulam was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Ulam.html (1518 words)

	Stanislaw Marcin Ulam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Stanisław Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909–May 13, 1984) was a Polish-American mathematician who helped develop the key theory behind the hydrogen bomb.
		Ulam—in collaboration with, who did the detailed calculations—showed Edward Teller's early model of the hydrogen bomb to be inadequate.
		He was the first one to realize that one could put all of the H-bomb's components inside one casing, put a fission bomb at one end and thermonuclear material at the other, and use shock waves from the fission bomb to compress and detonate fusion fuel.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Stanislaw_Marcin_Ulam (823 words)

	Stanislaw Ulam Exhibition Information
		“Stanislaw Ulam: Adventures of a Mathematician”; is a fascinating exhibit about the famous Polish mathematician who provided the critical scientific breakthrough that led to the development of the H-bomb by the United States.
		A prominent member of the legendary Polish School of Mathematics, Stanislaw Ulam first arrived in the United States in December 1935 to spend the year at the prestigious Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
		Leaving Harvard Ulam moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison first as a lecturer and than an assistant professor.
	www.atomicmuseum.com /tour/te-ulam.cfm (241 words)

	Family Letters from Lwów, Part I
		Michal Ulam, Szymon Ulam, and Zach to Stanislaw Ulam,
		Stefa, Adas and Józef Ulam to Stanislaw Ulam,
		Mamusia, Tatu, Adas, and Stefa to Stanislaw Ulam,
	www.aulam.org /anxious.htm (10042 words)

	Ulam spiral
		A remarkable geometric pattern accidentally found among the prime numbers by Stanislaw Ulam; it is also known as the prime spiral.
		During a boring meeting one day in 1963, Ulam drew a square, marked the number 1 at the center, and then wrote the increasing whole numbers as spiral that wound its way out to the edge of the paper.
		In Ulam's words the arrangement of primes "appears to exhibit a strongly nonrandom appearance." Ulam rushed home and expanded the spiral to cover a much larger portion of the number sequence.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/U/Ulam_spiral.html (243 words)

	Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Stanislaw Ulam was gifted mathematician who, during the course of his career, made significant contributions to set theory, topology, ergodic theory, probability, cellular automata theory, the study of nonlinear processes, the function of real variables, mathematical logic, and number theory.
		Ulam's convalescence required a leave of absence from USC, during which he was invited to attend a secret conference at LASL in April, 1946, to discuss the development of Teller's thermonuclear bomb.
		Ulam's work at LASL constitutes another area of surprising weakness: in some cases, the name of a correspondent associated with the laboratory suggests that valuable technical information on the development of nuclear weapons is available in their file.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/u/ulam.htm (4916 words)

	Ulam's Rose (prime number spiral)
		Stanislaw Ulam was attending some boring meeting, and to divert himself somewhat he began to scribble on a piece of paper.
		Ulam ran home and expanded the spiral to cover a much larger portion of the number sequence.
		The Ulam Rose of 1 => 262,144 used here is an embellishment of an image originally created by Jean-François Colonna ©1996, CNET and the École Polytechnique, Paris France.
	www.abarim-publications.com /artctulam.html (739 words)

	Stanislaw Marcin Ulam - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Stanislaw Ulam was born in Lviv (German Lemberg, Polish Lwów) Galicja, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine).
		While there, he suggested the Monte Carlo Method for evaluating complicated mathematical integrals that arise in the theory of nuclear chain reactions (not knowing that Fermi and others had used the method earlier).
		Stanislaw Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1983), his autobiography
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Stanislaw_Ulam (811 words)

	LANL \| History \| People \| Some Staff Biographies
		Yet with the war in full swing, Ulam said he was dismayed at the detached view of the conflict among many colleagues at Wisconsin and the isolationist attitude of many Americans.
		Ulam soon noted that people whom he knew well at Wisconsin began to vanish one after the other without saying where they were going.
		Ulam looked at all aspects of this project but concluded, "I sincerely felt it was safer to keep these matters in the hands of scientists and people who are accustomed to objective judgements rather than in the hands of demagogues or jingoists.
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	American Mathematical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Stanislaw Ulam got his Ph.D. in 1933 from the Polytechnic Institute in Lviv and was invited by John von Neumann to a visiting position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1936.
		Ulam writes that most mathematics positions in the US were secured through recommendations of George Birkhoff, Oswald Veblen, and Arthur Coble, who played leading roles at the American Mathematical Society in the 1920 and 30s.
		Ulam became a fellow at Harvard in 1939-40 and a mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1941 to 1943 when he started to work at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb project.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ikatcha1/AMS.html (219 words)

	Ulam's Problem - Project #5
		Ulam asked what is the minimal number of such yes-no queries required to find the number x, provided that the Responder may lie once or twice.
		Ulam's problem is simply an "amusing" version of the more general problem of dealing with errors in binary-search procedures.
		It turns out that the solution of Ulam's problem is remarkably similar to the solution of one of the main problems in coding theory, namely finding the minimum length for a code of a given size and a given minimum distance [3].
	www.cs.mcgill.ca /~psavad/cs251/ulam.html (2434 words)

	The American Experience \| Race for the Superbomb \| Stanislaw M. Ulam (1909 - 1984)
		One night in 1946, Stanislaw Ulam, a young mathematics professor was overwhelmed by a violent headache.
		Ulam had first come to the United States from Poland for a few months in 1935 at von Neumann's invitation to work at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton.
		Central to Ulam's idea was the use of material surrounding the fuel capsule that would magnify the energy of the radiation.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX74.html (597 words)

	About Stanislaw Ulam
		Perhaps his greatest achievement was the deveopment of the Monte Carlo method for solving complex mathematical problems by electronic random sampling, but he made equally noteworthy contributions in hydrodynamics (three-dimensionnal fluid flow), the development of nuclear propulsion for space flight (Project Orion), and in fields as disparate as physics, biology and astronomy.
		Stanislaw Ulam, who died in 1984, remains a noted mathematician.
		Stan Ulam himself recalled, in autobiographical notes among his papers at the American Philosophical Society [here quoted by permission of the APS], "Already, in 1945, I was asked to visit Los Alamos once or twice for conferences on the possibility of constructing the so-called 'super,' the hydrogen bomb.
	www.aulam.org /stanulam.htm (1501 words)

	Encyclopedia: Stanislaw Ulam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ulam was born in Lwów, Poland (then also called Lemberg and part of Galicja, an autonomous province of Austria-Hungary, now L'viv, Ukraine).
		His master in mathematics was Stefan Banach, a great Polish mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics.
		Everett, who did the detailed calculations—showed Edward Teller's early model of the hydrogen bomb to be inadequate.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stanislaw-Ulam (722 words)

	Adam Ulam, Authority on Russia, Dies at 77
		Stanislaw became one of the most eminent mathematicians and physicists of the 20th century and played a crucial role in the development of the thermonuclear bomb.
		Ulam won many awards for his research, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956, Rockefeller Fellowships in 1957 and 1960, and a lifetime distinguished achievement award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 1987.
		Ulam is survived by his former wife, Mary Burgwin Ulam, and by his two sons, Alexander Stanislaw Ulam and Joseph Howard Ulam.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/04.06/ulam.html (972 words)

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