Los Alamos Science Number 15: Special Issue on Stanislaw Ulam 1909 - 1984

1987 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Los Alamos ◽  
Stanislaw Ulam

Stanisław Ulam 1909-1984

1999 ◽  
Vol 83 (496) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
G. T. Q. Hoare
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National Laboratory ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Alamos National Laboratory ◽  
Los Alamos ◽  
Los Alamos National Laboratory ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Stanislaw Ulam

Prodigiously talented with a remarkable flair for anticipating correct results and initiating fruitful areas of research, Stanislaw Ulam (‘Stan’ to his friends) was an unusual mathematician. The considerable breadth of his preoccupations, even in the halcyon days of his youth in Poland, distinguished him from his peers. Sustained by a supreme self-confidence, Ulam preferred pioneering new fields of mathematics to elaborating the ideas of others. Indeed, impatient with detail he tended to leave technicalities to those with whom he collaborated. Uprooted from his native Poland in his twenties, Ulam was to spend two thirds of his working life associated with or employed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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