Stanislaw Ulam would have been 100 years old Friday. Even if you don't recognize the name, you are probably familiar with his work. Stanislaw Ulam was a mathematician who helped design the hydrogen ...

Stanislaw Ulam, born in Poland in 1909, was a key member of the remarkable Lvov School of Mathematics, which flourished in that city between the two world wars. Ulam studied mathematics at the Lvov ...

If there’s anything we learn from math teachers and the Da Vinci Code, it’s that prime numbers are magic. They can do anything, and be anywhere. Including a doodle on a math paper. In the 1960s, a ...

When physicist Hans Bethe first heard of the atomic bomb project he thought it an impractical idea and he didn't want to get involved with it. He told a biographer after the war that, "I considered ...

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April 13 is as ordinary a day as any other—which means that over the years it has seen its fair share of science headlines. Read on for the details. Mathematician Stanislaw Ulam had an illustrious ...

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