# Stanislaw Ulam

> He helped invent the hydrogen bomb, then spent decades trying to dream up ways to use nuclear explosions for something other than war. The Monte Carlo method — now a workhorse of science and finance — came from realizing computers could brute-force problems math alone couldn't crack.

*Polish-American mathematician*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1909-04-13
- **Died:** 1984-05-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Stanisław Ulam was born into a wealthy Polish Jewish family in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, on 13 April 1909, earned his PhD in mathematics from the Lwów Polytechnic Institute in 1933, and sailed to the United States for the last time with his younger brother in August 1939. He joined the Manhattan Project in October 1943 at Los Alamos, working on implosion-weapon calculations and later on Edward Teller's "Super" hydrogen bomb design — which Ulam and a team of female computers proved unworkable. In January 1951, Ulam and Teller devised the Teller–Ulam design, the blueprint for every thermonuclear weapon since. After the war he turned to cellular automata, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem that seeded nonlinear science, and nuclear pulse propulsion under Project Orion. He died on 13 May 1984, best remembered for seeing that computers could solve functions with no closed form by running the odds millions of times over.

## Fame
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## Topics
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