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The Monte Carlo method has since been used extensively and successfully in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle space-shuttle] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry re-entry] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamics aerodynamics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research operations research], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_chemistry physical chemistry], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_integration numerical integration], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance finance] and many more, in addition to physics. I was glad to see that the ideas of Stan Ulam on games and physics re-emerged after almost 70 years. Stan was a theoretical mathematician, but excelled also in applied math, physics and biology, and was involved with the early 6 x 6 computer chess program. Above all, he was extraordinarily original.
==John McCarthy==
{{Quote McCarthy on Alpha-Beta}}
=Selected Publications=
* [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]
* [[Stanislaw Ulam]] ('''1976'''). ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=U2_zEZOHdU4C&dq=Ulam,+Adventures+of+a+Mathematician&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=1vq8rWcGN0&sig=sjrDMjU42ajkqDoGNUbu0IKwXQ8&hl=de&ei=0lKuSuTmG9KRsAbCjs3MBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Adventures of a mathematician]''. [http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Mathematician-S-M-Ulam/dp/0520071549 amazon.com], [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/2702.php University of California Press]
* [[Stanislaw Ulam]], [[Paul Stein]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapterbook/10.1007%2F978/978-1-4615-9819-0_7 Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts0 Science, Computers, and People - From the Tree of Mathematics]''. in edited by [http://cs-people.bu.edu/markreyn/ Mark C. Reynolds]], [[Mathematician#GCRota|Gian-Carlo Rota]] (eds) , [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkh%C3%A4user Birkhäuser]: [[Paul Stein]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/bookchapter/10.1007/978%2F978-1-4615-9819-0 Science, Computers, and People - From the Tree of Mathematics0_7 Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkh%C3%A4user Birkhäuser]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Metropolis Nicholas Metropolis] ('''1987'''). ''The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method''. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos Science Special]], [http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00326866.pdf pdf]
* Editor ('''1987'''). ''[http://la-science.lanl.gov/lascience15.shtml Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984]''. [http://la-science.lanl.gov/ Los Alamos Science], No. 15
* [http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/U/Ulam.html Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin (1909-1984)] from [http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html The Internet Encyclopedia of Science]
* [http://strangewondrous.net/browse/author/u/ulam+stanislaw Quotations by Stanislaw Ulam]
* [http://people.bu.edu/gorelik/GGorelik_H-Fathers_Phys-perspect-2009_w.htm Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives] by [http://people.bu.edu/gorelik/ Gennady Gorelik]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pasta%E2%80%93Ulam%E2%80%93Tsingou_problem Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam%27s_game Ulam's game from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_number Ulam number from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_number Lucky number from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam%27s_packing_conjecture Ulam's packing conjecture from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral Ulam spiral from Wikipedia]
=References=
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