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Stanislaw Ulam

1909 - 1984

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Stanisław Marcin Ulam (Polish: [sta'ɲiswaf 'mart͡ɕin 'ulam]; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish and American mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and suggested nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and applied mathematics, he proved a number of theorems and proposed several conjectures. Born into a wealthy Polish Jewish family in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Ulam studied mathematics at the Lwów Polytechnic Institute, where he earned his PhD in 1933 under the supervision of Kazimierz Kuratowski and Włodzimierz Stożek. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanislaw Ulam is the 73rd most popular mathematician (up from 87th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 67th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 73 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert, Hermann Minkowski, Andrey Kolmogorov, Gaspard Monge, Norbert Wiener, and Giuseppe Peano. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Bhāskara II, Regiomontanus, János Bolyai, Katherine Johnson, and Pappus of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 17. Before him are Francis Bacon, Andrei Gromyko, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Peter Drucker, Kwame Nkrumah, and Victor Borge. After him are Mohammed V of Morocco, Li Xiannian, Elia Kazan, Isaiah Berlin, Talal of Jordan, and Souphanouvong. Among people deceased in 1984, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 16. Before him are Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, Mikhail Sholokhov, Julio Cortázar, and Johnny Weissmuller. After him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Ed Gein, Martin Ryle, Pyotr Kapitsa, Vicente Aleixandre, and Ahmed Sékou Touré.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 50 out of 1,365. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Igor Sikorsky (1889), George Gamow (1904), Joseph Roth (1894), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), and Vladimir II Monomakh (1053). After him are Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Sergei Korolev (1906), Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Sholem Aleichem (1859), and Moshe Sharett (1894).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 1. After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), Vladimir Arnold (1937), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), Israel Gelfand (1913), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Vladimir Drinfeld (1954), and Igor Shafarevich (1923).

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