From Cardinals to Chaos: Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Stanislaw Ulam
Part 1 Stan Ulam - the man, his life, his style: Esquisse, Francoise Ulam Vita - excerpts from adventures of a mathematician, S.M.Ulam the lost cafe, Gian-Carlo Rota from above the fray, Carson Mark. Part 2 The Ulam legacy - interdisciplinary approaches: the spirit of play, David Hawkins probability and nonlinear systems, R.Daniel Mauldin iteration of maps, strange attractors and number theory - an Ulamian potpourri, Paul R.Stein learning from Ulam - measurable cardinals, ergodicity and biomathematics, Jan Mycielski a similarity measure for graphs - reflections on a theme of Ulam, Ronald L.Graham the beginning of the Monte Carlo method, N.Metropolis Stan Ulam, John von Neumann and the Monte Carlo method, Roger Eckhardt et al early work in numerical hydrodynamics, Francis H.Harlow instabilities and turbulence, Didier Besnard discrete fluids, Brosl Hasslacher nonlinear science - from paradigms to practicalities, David K.Campbell the ergodic hypothesis - a complicated problem of mathematics and physics, Adrian Patrascioiu reflections on the brain's attempts to understand itself, William A.Beyer sequence analysis - contributions by Ulam to molecular genetics, Walter B.Goad. Part 3 The Ulam touch - unpublished items.