Ulam
Proper noun
Meaning
Ulam
A surname.
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A few weeks later, Ulam received a letter from Hans Bethe, inviting him to join the project.
Although Teller and Ulam submitted a joint report on their design and jointly applied for a patent on it, they soon became involved in a dispute over who deserved credit.
Bradbury appointed Ulam and John H. Manley as research advisors to the laboratory director in 1957.
Because Ulam had often mentioned his uncle, Michał Ulam, "who just had to go to Monte Carlo" to gamble, Metropolis dubbed the statistical approach "The Monte Carlo method ".
Burgess's interest in language was reflected in the invented, Anglo-Russian teen slang of A Clockwork Orange ( Nadsat ), and in the movie Quest for Fire (1981), for which he invented a prehistoric language (Ulam) for the characters.
Earlier, while playing solitaire during his recovery from surgery, Ulam had thought about playing hundreds of games to estimate statistically the probability of a successful outcome.