Science, Computers, and People : From the Tree of Mathematics / by Stanislaw M. Ulam ; edited by Mark C. Reynolds, Gian-Carlo Rota
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版情報 | Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston , 1986 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | XXII, 266 p : online resource |
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| 内容注記 | 1 The Applicability of Mathematics 2 Physics for Mathematicians 3 Ideas of Space and Space-Time 4 Philosophical Implications of Some Recent Scientific Discoveries 5 A First Look at Computing: A Personal Retrospective 6 Computers in Mathematics 7 Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts 8 Computations in Parallel 9 Patterns of Growth of Figures 10 More on Patterns of Growth 11 How to Formulate Mathematically the Problems of the Rate of Evolution 12 Some Further Ideas and Prospects in Biomathematics 13 Further Applications of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences 14 Thermonuclear Devices 15 The Orion Project 16 John von Neumann, 1903–1957 17 Von Neumann: The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing 18 John von Neumann on Computers and the Brain 19 Gamow and Mathematics: Personal Reminiscences 20 Marian Smoluchowski and the Theory of Probabilities in Physics 21 Kazimierz Kuratowski 22 Stefan Banach 23 A Concluding Paean |
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| 一般注記 | STANISLAW MARCIN ULAM, or Stan as his friends called him, was one of those great creative mathematicians whose interests ranged not only over all fields of mathematics, but over the physical and biological sciences as well. Like his good friend "Johnny" von Neumann, and unlike so many of his peers, Ulam is unclassifiable as a pure or applied mathematician. He never ceased to find as much beauty and excitement in the applications of mathematics as in working in those rarefied regions where there is a total un concern with practical problems. In his Adventures of a Mathematician Ulam recalls playing on an oriental carpet when he was four. The curious patterns fascinated him. When his father smiled, Ulam remembers thinking: "He smiles because he thinks I am childish, but I know these are curious patterns. I know something my father does not know." The incident goes to the heart of Ulam's genius. He could see quickly, in flashes of brilliant insight, curious patterns that other mathematicians could not see. "I am the type that likes to start new things rather than improve or elaborate," he wrote. "I cannot claim that I know much of the technical material of mathematics |
| 著者標目 | *Ulam, Stanislaw M. author Reynolds, Mark C. editor Rota, Gian-Carlo editor SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Mathematics LCSH:History FREE:Mathematics FREE:History of Mathematical Sciences |
| 分 類 | DC23:510.9 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:9781461598190 
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| ISBN | 9781461598190 |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0 |
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