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Stanislaw Ulam was Polish-American mathematician. Explore interesting quotes on year.
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“For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.”

Stanislaw Ulam

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 2, Student Years, p. 45 (On Ada Halpern...)
Context: Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

“For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.”

Stanislaw Ulam

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 2, Student Years, p. 37

Mathematics

“By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.”

Stanislaw Ulam

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 14, Professor Again, p. 267

Country

“Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

Stanislaw Ulam

Preface To the 1983 Edition, p. xxvii
Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991)

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