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Stanislaw Ulam Stanisław Marcin Ulam (; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapon ...

, a 20th-century Polish-American mathematician who also worked in physics and biological sciences:

Computer science

Stan Stan or STAN may refer to: People * Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name ** Stan Laurel (1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname * Stan! (born 1964), American author ...

, probabilistic programming language

Mathematics

* Borsuk–Ulam theorem *

Erdős–Ulam problem In mathematics, the Erdős–Ulam problem asks whether the plane contains a dense set of points whose Euclidean distances are all rational numbers. It is named after Paul Erdős and Stanislaw Ulam. Large point sets with rational distances The Erd ...

* Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem *

Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability The stability problem of functional equations originated from a question of Stanisław Ulam, posed in 1940, concerning the stability of group homomorphisms. In the next year, Donald H. Hyers gave a partial affirmative answer to the question of ...

Kuratowski–Ulam theorem In mathematics, the Kuratowski–Ulam theorem, introduced by , called also the Fubini theorem for Meagre set#Terminology, category, is an analog of Fubini's theorem for arbitrary second countable Baire spaces. Let ''X'' and ''Y'' be second countab ...

Mazur–Ulam theorem In mathematics, the Mazur–Ulam theorem states that if V and W are normed spaces over R and the mapping :f\colon V\to W is a surjective isometry, then f is affine. It was proved by Stanisław Mazur and Stanisław Ulam in response to a questi ...

* Ulam's conjecture **

Collatz conjecture The Collatz conjecture is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. The conjecture asks whether repeating two simple arithmetic operations will eventually transform every positive integer into 1. It concerns sequences of integ ...

** Kelly–Ulam conjecture, or reconstruction conjecture **

Ulam's packing conjecture Ulam's packing conjecture, named for Stanislaw Ulam, is a conjecture about the highest possible packing density of identical convex solids in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The conjecture says that the optimal density for packing congruent ...

Ulam matrix In mathematical set theory, an Ulam matrix is an array of subsets of a cardinal number with certain properties. Ulam matrices were introduced by Stanislaw Ulam Stanisław Marcin Ulam (; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish-American ...

Ulam numbers In mathematics, the Ulam numbers comprise an integer sequence devised by and named after Stanislaw Ulam, who introduced it in 1964. The standard Ulam sequence (the (1, 2)-Ulam sequence) starts with ''U''1 = 1 and ''U''2 =&n ...

* Ulam spiral *

Ulam's game Ulam's game, or the Rényi–Ulam game, is a mathematical game similar to the popular game of twenty questions. In Ulam's game, a player attempts to guess an unnamed object or number by asking yes–no questions of another, but ''one'' of the ans ...

* Ulam–Warburton cellular automaton

Physics

* Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem *

Fermi–Ulam model The Fermi–Ulam model (FUM) is a dynamical system that was introduced by Poland, Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1961. FUM is a variant of Enrico Fermi's primary work on acceleration of cosmic rays, namely Fermi acceleration. The syste ...

Teller–Ulam design A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lowe ...

Computer science

Mathematics

Physics

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