MATHEMATICIAN

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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanislaw Ulam has received more than 964,393 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Stanislaw Ulam is the 87th most popular mathematician (up from 147th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 114th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 87 out of 1,004. Before him are Regiomontanus, Pappus of Alexandria, Stefan Banach, Felix Klein, Ctesibius, and Alexander Friedmann. After him are Katherine Johnson, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, G. H. Hardy, and Siméon Denis Poisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 17. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mohammed V of Morocco, Virginia Apgar, Andrei Gromyko, and Talal of Jordan. After him are Elia Kazan, Li Xiannian, Isaiah Berlin, Ernst Gombrich, Mohammed Daoud Khan, and Carmen Miranda. Among people deceased in 1984, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 16. Before him are Julio Cortázar, Martin Niemöller, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Ed Gein, and Ray Kroc. After him are Martin Ryle, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, and Ahmed Sékou Touré.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stanislaw Ulam ranks 67 out of 1,365. Before him are Fanny Kaplan (1890), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891). After him are Daniel of Galicia (1201), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), David Oistrakh (1908), Sergey Bubka (1963), Isaac Babel (1894), and Georges Charpak (1924).

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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), Richard von Mises (1883), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Israel Gelfand (1913), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Georgy Voronoy (1868), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880).

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