Author | Ulam, Stanislaw M. author |
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Title | Science, Computers, and People [electronic resource] : From the Tree of Mathematics / by Stanislaw M. Ulam ; edited by Mark C. Reynolds, Gian-Carlo Rota |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Birkhรคuser Boston, 1986 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0 |
Descript | XXII, 266 p. online resource |
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, 1903โ1957 -- 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