Stanislaw Ulam

Stanis?aw Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909 – May 13, 1984) was a Jewish Polish-American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan Project and originated the Teller?Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. He also invented nuclear pulse propulsion and developed a number of mathematical tools in number theory, set theory, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.

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Stanis?aw Ulam was born in Lwów (; ), Galicia, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (after the War, and until 1939, Lwów was in the Second Polish Republic), to a wealthy Polish-Jewish banking and timber-processing family, part of the large Jewish minority population of the city. His mentor in mathematics was Stefan Banach, a great Polish mathematician and one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics and more broadly of the remarkable Interbellum Polish School of Mathematics.

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