Stanisław Ulam cytaty

Stanisław Marcin Ulam – polsko-amerykański matematyk, przedstawiciel lwowskiej szkoły matematycznej, współtwórca amerykańskiej bomby termojądrowej.

Ulam ma wielkie dokonania w zakresie matematyki i fizyki matematycznej w dziedzinach topologii, teorii mnogości, teorii miary, procesów gałązkowych. Ulam był także twórcą metod numerycznych, na przykład metody Monte Carlo. Był też jednym z pierwszych naukowców, którzy wykorzystywali w swych pracach komputer. Metody komputerowe zostały użyte przez Ulama do modelowania powielania neutronów oraz rozwiązania problemu drgającej struny zawierającej element nieliniowy . Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Kwiecień 1909 – 13. Maj 1984
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Stanisław Ulam słynne cytaty

„Matematycy wiedzą bardzo dużo o niewielu sprawach, fizycy wiedzą bardzo mało o wielu sprawach.”

Źródło: Analogies between Analogies, The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators

„Cokolwiek jest warte powiedzenia, da się ująć w pięćdziesięciu lub mniej słowach.”

Źródło: Gian-Carlo Rota, Words spoken at the memorial service for S.M. Ulam, w: The Mathematical Intelligencer (1984)

Stanisław Ulam: Cytaty po angielsku

“For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 2, Student Years, p. 45 (On Ada Halpern...)
Kontekst: 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.

“It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 3, Travels Abroad, p. 52

“It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 274

“I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 2, Student Years, p. 34
Kontekst: Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

“It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 6, Transition And Crisis, p. 119
Kontekst: There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

“Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 10, Back At Los Alamos, p. 208
Kontekst: I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

“In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 5, Harvard Years, p. 95

“Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 277

“The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.”

On the Ergodic Behavior of Dynamical Systems (LA-2055, May 10, 1955) in [Stanisław Marcin Ulam, Analogies between Analogies, The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators, University of California Press, 1990, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9g50091s/]

“According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 13, Government Science, p. 258

“It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 3, Travels Abroad, p. 55

“Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.”

as quoted by Gian-Carlo Rota in Words spoken at the memorial service for S. M. Ulam (The Lodge, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 17, 1984), published in The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 6, Number 4 / December, 1984

“Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

In Heinz R. Pagels, The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity, Ch. 3, p. 94; as quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (Springer, 2008), p. 861

“Thoughts are steered in different ways.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 275

“The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second sign is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is that he forgets to zip down.”

Attributed in Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1998)
This has also been attributed, with variants, to Paul Erdős, who repeated the remark.

“I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 5, Harvard Years, p. 96

“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate…”

as quoted by Olgierd Budrewicz in The melting-pot revisited: twenty well-known Americans of Polish background http://books.google.com/books?ei=jntPUNaTMafZ0QHMloGQBQ&id=pc51AAAAMAAJ&dq=Olgierd+Budrewicz%7C&q=Sometimes+I+muse#search_anchor, publish by Interpress, page 36, 1977.

“As one sharpens a knife on a whetstone, the brain can be sharpened on dull objects of thought. Every form of assiduous thinking has its value.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 278

“I thought that the description of Don Quixote's fight with the windmills the funniest thing imaginable.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 1, Childhood, p. 12

“I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.”

Źródło: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 275

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