Titlebook: Science, Computers, and People; From the Tree of Mat Stanislaw M. Ulam,Mark C. Reynolds,Gian-Carlo Rota Book 1986 Birkhäuser Boston 1986 Jo

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Gamow and Mathematics: Personal Reminiscences,bers through which, by degrees, he became interested in physics. He also describes the courses he took in mathematics and his professors at the University of Leningrad. He says that in those days he was already attracted to the more qualitative more purely conceptual parts of mathematics and, by con

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Further Applications of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,andard analysis. A lot of numerical work of heuristic value was done in Los Alamos during and after World War II, and this is perhaps a novel feature of present day applications of mathematics, but the physicists there also used some very abstract mathematics. For example, some results of topology were of use in the design of accelerators.

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,John von Neumann 1903–1957, physics, astronomy, biology, and the new technology. Many eminent voices have described and praised his contributions. It is my aim to add here a brief account of his life and of his work from a background of personal acquaintance and friendship extending over a period of 25 years.

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John von Neumann on Computers and the Brain, University in 1956. As Mrs. von Neumann explains in the introduction, the lectures were written during his fatal illness. In places the presentation of the material lacks his characteristic style. Nevertheless the book, like everything von Neumann wrote, remains highly original and intensely stimulating.

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Book 1986ds of mathematics, but over the physical and biological sciences as well. Like his good friend "Johnny" von Neumann, and unlike so many of his peers, Ulam is unclassifiable as a pure or applied mathematician. He never ceased to find as much beauty and excitement in the applications of mathematics as

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Patterns of Growth of Figures,xample, the plane may be divided into squares or else into equilateral triangles (the space into cubes, etc.). An initial configuration will be a finite number of elements of such a subdivision and our induction rule will define successive accretions to the starting configuration.

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Some Further Ideas and Prospects in Biomathematics,riety of problems in biological studies. Indeed, to present anything like a comprehensive picture would require bulky and manifold volumes of very heterogeneous contributions. Towards the end of this chapter, however, we shall list a number of biological fields where mathematical techniques have been employed.