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[[FILE:PaulStein.jpg|border|right|thumb|200px| Paul Stein <ref>Image from [[Paul Stein]] ('''1987'''). ''Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri''. in ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15, [https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285739.pdf pdf]</ref> ]]
'''Paul R. Stein''',<br/>
an American physicist and mathematician, and staff member at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] since 1950, working on problems that range from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_and_theoretical_biology mathematical biology] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory nonlinear transformations] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory experimental number theory] <ref>[[Paul Stein]] ('''1987'''). ''Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri''. in ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15, [https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285739.pdf pdf]</ref>. In the late 1950s, along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou Mary Menzel] and [[Stanislaw Ulam]], Paul Stein performed one of the earliest digital simulations of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_dynamics discrete dynamics] in two-dimensions <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou Mary Tsingou-Menzel], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1959'''). ''Quadratic Transformations: Part I''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] report LA-2305</ref>. In their work they created a robot mathematician to scan the results of simulations for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor chaotic attractors] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham Ralph Abraham] ('''2011'''). ''Image Entropy for Discrete Dynamical Systems''. [http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%23133.Entropy/ms133.pdf pdf]</ref>.
=MANIAC I=
Paul Stein was member of a group of H-bomb researchers around Stanislaw Ulam, [[Mark Wells]] and [[John Pasta]] et al., who wrote the [[MANIAC I|chess-playing program]] <ref>[[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1957'''). ''Experiments in chess on electronic computing machines''. Chess Review, 13 January 1957.</ref> <ref>[[James Kister]], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[William Walden]], [[Mark Wells]] ('''1957'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320868.320877&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=628969023&CFTOKEN=30690604 Experiments in Chess]''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 4, No. 2</ref> for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I MANIAC I] in 1956. It played [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_chess Los Alamos chess] on a 6×6 board without bishops.
=Photos=
[[FILE:2-2.MANIAC.LAT1994.L02645387.LANL.lg.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431614f64c5ba]]
[[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] scientists [[Paul Stein]] (left) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis Nick Metropolis] playing chess with the MANIAC computer <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431614f64c5ba Los Alamos scientisits Paul Stern (left) and Nick Metropolis playing chess with the MANIAC computer], 1956, Courtesy of [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>see also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_L._Anderson Herbert L. Anderson] ('''1986'''). ''Metropolis, Monte Carlo, and the MANIAC''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], [http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00326886.pdf pdf]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Stein:Paul_R= dblp: Paul R. Stein]</ref>
* [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1957'''). ''Experiments in chess on electronic computing machines''. Chess Review, 13 January 1957.
* [[James Kister]], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[William Walden]], [[Mark Wells]] ('''1957'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320868.320877&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=628969023&CFTOKEN=30690604 Experiments in Chess]''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 4, No. 2
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou Mary Tsingou-Menzel], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1959'''). ''Quadratic Transformations: Part I''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] report LA-2305, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9g50091s&doc.view=content&chunk.id=d0e25313&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=0&brand=ucpress republished] in [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9g50091s;brand=ucpress Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Press University of California Press]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riordan_%28mathematician%29 John Riordan], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316572900842 Arrangements on Chessboards]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory] Series A, Vol. 12, No. 1
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis Nicholas Metropolis], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Stein:M=_L= Myron L. Stein], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316573900332 On finite limit sets for transformations on the unit interval]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory] Series A, Vol. 15, No. 1
* [[Paul Stein]] ('''1982'''). ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/cat_history.shtml Bernd Matthias - A Personal Memoir]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 4 » [[Mathematician#BerndMatthias|Bernd Matthias]]
* [http://www.santafefuneraloption.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=39345 William A. Beyer], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1983'''). ''Brief History of Functional Iteration at Los Alamos''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]
* [[Paul Stein]] ('''1986'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-9819-0_7 Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts]''. in [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1986'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0 Science, Computers, and People - From the Tree of Mathematics]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkh%C3%A4user Birkhäuser]
* [[Paul Stein]] ('''1987'''). ''Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri''. in ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15, [https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285739.pdf pdf]
=References=
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[[FILE:PaulStein.jpg|border|right|thumb|200px| Paul Stein <ref>Image from [[Paul Stein]] ('''1987'''). ''Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri''. in ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15, [https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285739.pdf pdf]</ref> ]]
'''Paul R. Stein''',<br/>
an American physicist and mathematician, and staff member at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] since 1950, working on problems that range from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_and_theoretical_biology mathematical biology] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory nonlinear transformations] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory experimental number theory] <ref>[[Paul Stein]] ('''1987'''). ''Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri''. in ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15, [https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285739.pdf pdf]</ref>. In the late 1950s, along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou Mary Menzel] and [[Stanislaw Ulam]], Paul Stein performed one of the earliest digital simulations of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_dynamics discrete dynamics] in two-dimensions <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou Mary Tsingou-Menzel], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1959'''). ''Quadratic Transformations: Part I''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] report LA-2305</ref>. In their work they created a robot mathematician to scan the results of simulations for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor chaotic attractors] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham Ralph Abraham] ('''2011'''). ''Image Entropy for Discrete Dynamical Systems''. [http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%23133.Entropy/ms133.pdf pdf]</ref>.
=MANIAC I=
Paul Stein was member of a group of H-bomb researchers around Stanislaw Ulam, [[Mark Wells]] and [[John Pasta]] et al., who wrote the [[MANIAC I|chess-playing program]] <ref>[[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1957'''). ''Experiments in chess on electronic computing machines''. Chess Review, 13 January 1957.</ref> <ref>[[James Kister]], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[William Walden]], [[Mark Wells]] ('''1957'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320868.320877&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=628969023&CFTOKEN=30690604 Experiments in Chess]''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 4, No. 2</ref> for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I MANIAC I] in 1956. It played [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_chess Los Alamos chess] on a 6×6 board without bishops.
=Photos=
[[FILE:2-2.MANIAC.LAT1994.L02645387.LANL.lg.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431614f64c5ba]]
[[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] scientists [[Paul Stein]] (left) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis Nick Metropolis] playing chess with the MANIAC computer <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431614f64c5ba Los Alamos scientisits Paul Stern (left) and Nick Metropolis playing chess with the MANIAC computer], 1956, Courtesy of [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>see also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_L._Anderson Herbert L. Anderson] ('''1986'''). ''Metropolis, Monte Carlo, and the MANIAC''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], [http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00326886.pdf pdf]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Stein:Paul_R= dblp: Paul R. Stein]</ref>
* [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1957'''). ''Experiments in chess on electronic computing machines''. Chess Review, 13 January 1957.
* [[James Kister]], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[William Walden]], [[Mark Wells]] ('''1957'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320868.320877&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=628969023&CFTOKEN=30690604 Experiments in Chess]''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 4, No. 2
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou Mary Tsingou-Menzel], [[Paul Stein]], [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1959'''). ''Quadratic Transformations: Part I''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] report LA-2305, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9g50091s&doc.view=content&chunk.id=d0e25313&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=0&brand=ucpress republished] in [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9g50091s;brand=ucpress Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Press University of California Press]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riordan_%28mathematician%29 John Riordan], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316572900842 Arrangements on Chessboards]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory] Series A, Vol. 12, No. 1
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis Nicholas Metropolis], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Stein:M=_L= Myron L. Stein], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316573900332 On finite limit sets for transformations on the unit interval]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory] Series A, Vol. 15, No. 1
* [[Paul Stein]] ('''1982'''). ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/cat_history.shtml Bernd Matthias - A Personal Memoir]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 4 » [[Mathematician#BerndMatthias|Bernd Matthias]]
* [http://www.santafefuneraloption.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=39345 William A. Beyer], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1983'''). ''Brief History of Functional Iteration at Los Alamos''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]
* [[Paul Stein]] ('''1986'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-9819-0_7 Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts]''. in [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1986'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0 Science, Computers, and People - From the Tree of Mathematics]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkh%C3%A4user Birkhäuser]
* [[Paul Stein]] ('''1987'''). ''Iteration of Maps, Strange Attractors, and Number Theory - An Ulamian Potpourri''. in ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15, [https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285739.pdf pdf]
=References=
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