author : Necia Grant Cooper

Contents

• Francoise Ulam.

Esquisse

• Stanislaw M. Ulam.

Vita. excerpts from Adventures of a Mathematician

• Gian-Carlo Rota.

The Lost Cafe

• J. Carson Mark.

From Above the Fray

• David Hawkins.

The Spirit of Play---A Memoir for Stan Ulam

• R. Daniel Maudlin.

Probability and Nonlinear Systems

• Paul R. Stein.

Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory---An Ulamian Potpourri

• Jan Mycielski.

Learning from Ulam: Measurable Cardinals, Ergodicity, and Biomathematics

• Ronald L. Graham.

A Similarity Measure for Graphs---Reflections on a Theme of Ulam

• N. Metropolis.

The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method

• Roger Eckhardt.

Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method

• Tony Warnock.

Randon-Number Generators

• Gary D. Doolen, John Hendricks.

Monte Carlo at Work

• Francis H. Harlow.

Early Work in Numerical Hydrodynamics

• Didier Besnard, Francis H. Harlow, Norman L. Johnson, Rick Rauenzahn, Jonathan Wolfe.

Instabilities and Turbulence

• Brosl Hasslacher.

Discrete Fluids

• Tsutomu Shimomura, Gary D. Doolen, Brosl Hasslacher, Castor Fu.

Calculations Using Lattice Gas Techniques

• David K. Campbell.

Nonlinear Science---From Paradigms to Practicalities

Let me start from a very simple, albeit circular, definition: nonlinear science is the study of those mathematical systems and natural phenomena that are not linear. Ever attuned to the possibility of bons mots, Stan once remarked that this was "like defining the bulk of zoology by calling it the study of 'non-elephant animals'." His point, clearly, was that the vast majority of mathematical equations and natural phenomena are nonlinear, with linearity being the exceptional, but important, case.

• Adrian Patrascioiu.

The Ergodic Hypothesis: A Complicated Problem of Mathematics and Physics

• Stanislaw M. Ulam.

Reflections on the Brain's Attempts to Understand Itself. Gamow Memorial Lecture. 1982

• William A. Beyer.

An Ulam Distance

• Walter B. Goad.

Sequence Analysis---Contributions by Ulam to Molecular Genetics

• J. Carson Mark, Stanislaw M. Ulam.

A Memorable Memo. 1947

The numbers 0-100, in alphabetical order

• Stanislaw M. Ulam.

Sub Rosa---A Trialogue

• Francoise Ulam.

Conversations with Rota