Leonard, William Ellery, 126
Leray, Jean, 68
Lespinasse, Julie de, 272
Levin, Harry, 86
Levinson, Norman, 94
Lindemann, F. A., see Cherwell, Lord
Livermore (Calif.) Laboratory, 221, 255
Loeb, Carl, Jr., 115
Lomnicki, Antoni, 27
Lomnicki, Zbigniew, 27, 39
Long, Earl, 169
Longmire, Conrad, 221
Lorentz, Hendryk A., 296
Los Alamos, 3 ff, 34, 49, 61, 94, 109, 131, 138, 141, 144 ff, 148 ff, 155 ff, 160 ff, 164 ff, 172 ff, 177, 184 ff, 188, 190 ff, 195 f, 199, 201, 206, 209, 211 ff, 220 ff, 225, 227 ff, 237, 239, 249 ff, 254 f, 259 f, 264, 266 f, 269, 293
Lotka, Alfred James, 160
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 88
Lowes, John Livingston, 86
Lwów, 4, 9 f, 14, 18, 23, 27, 29, 32, 35 ff, 39 ff, 43 f, 47, 50 f, 65, 67 f, 73, 93, 99, 106 ff, 116, 131, 133, 269, 282
Lwów Polytechnic Institute, 24, 26, 31, 47
McKibben, Joseph, 144
Madison, Wisconsin, 120, 122 f, 125 f, 128 ff, 136 ff, 144 f, 173, 195
Manhattan Project, 145, 172;
see also Los Alamos
MANIAC, see electronic computers
Manley, John, 249
Marcinkiewicz, Jozef (1910–1940), 92, 93
Mark, J. Carson, 171, 193, 219, 250, 266
mathematics, 25 ff, 52 ff, 65 ff, 84, 90 ff, 103 ff, 121 ff, 128, 135, 268, 273 ff
algebra, 121, 130, 282, 292
algebraic geometry, 134, 283
algorithms, 280, 293
analysis, 26, 40, 98, 268
Banach spaces, 38, 100
branching processes, 142, 153, 159, 214
category theory, 46, 85
combinatorial analysis, 134, 264, 268, 282
complexity, 298
complex numbers, 278
continuum hypothesis, 21, 29, 196
differential equations, 276
differential geometry, 291
diophantine equations, 293
ergodic theory, 85, 95, 98
Fermat's theorem, 278, 291
Fourier series, transforms, 92, 96, 269
foundations of mathematics, 75, 268, 284
function spaces, 31, 110, 137
games, 32, 242, 268, 281 f, 284 f, 287
mathematics (continued)
group theory, 30, 129, 207
infinities, 282 f, 297
information theory, 160, 294
logic, 30, 75, 130, 183, 259, 268
mathematical physics, 148, 192, 287
measure theory, 47, 55, 65, 131, 282
multiplicative processes, 159, 213 (see also branching processes, above)
number theory, 58, 92, 96, 134, 268, 270, 291
numerical analysis, 264
probability theory, 27, 99, 195 f, 270, 282, 284 f, 294
Riemann hypothesis, 134, 279
set theory, 25, 27 ff, 40 f, 43, 65, 73, 75, 96, 105, 121, 268, 282
topology, 40 f, 43, 66 f, 103, 105, 268, 270, 282 f
transfinite numbers, 21
undecidability, 283
Matiasevic, Yuri, 285, 293
Matthias, Bernd, 254
May, Karl, 23, 229
Maxwell, James Clerk, 299
Mayer, Maria, 110
Mazur, Stanislaw, 26, 31 ff, 38, 42, 50, 53, 99, 104, 107, 129, 270
Mazurkiewicz, Stefan (1888–1945), 25, 40
memory, 12 ff, 18, 54, 179 ff, 199, 236
Menger, Karl, 56
Menkès, Zygmund, 115
meteorology, weather control, 185
Metropolis, Nicholas, 153, 169, 177, 184 f, 209, 213, 225, 228, 237
Metzger, 21
Michael, Aristotle D., 177
''Mike" test, 220 f
Monge, Gaspard, 58
Monte Carlo method, 137, 196, 198 f, 232
Montgomery, Dean, 134
Moore, Charles N., 283
Morgan, J. P., 231
Morgenstern, Oskar, 160, 242
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 86
Morse, Marston, 73
Mycielski, Jan, 268
Nabokov, Vladimir, 14, 124, 184
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 254
Naval Research Laboratory, 232
Neumann, John von (1903–1957), 4, 5, 35, 44, 49, 60, 65, 73, 172, 188 f, 207, 231, 252, 291, 295, 303
AEC Commissioner, 231, 237 f, 239
association with SMU, 65 ff, 100 ff, 107 ff, 136 f, 191, 193 f, 229 ff
and computers, 13, 184 f, 198 ff, 229 f, 286
in Europe, 23, 66 ff, 107 ff
illness and death, 238 ff
Los Alamos connection, 141 ff, 146 f, 153 f, 161, 162, 166 f, 222 ff
at Princeton, 4, 65 f, 69 ff, 75 ff, 95 ff
See also automata, electronic computers, ICBM
Neumann, Klari von, 110, 191, 193, 213, 229, 239 f, 243
Neumann, Marietta von, 69, 102, 109, 113
Neumann, Marina von, 66, 69
Newton, Isaac (1642–1726), 16, 59, 104, 167, 205
Nikliborc, Wladislaw, 26, 35, 37, 48
Nikodym, Oton, 32
Noether, Emmy, 46
Novikoff, Peter S., 285
nuclear energy, 224, 252, 254
nuclear propulsion, 252, 255;
see also Orion; Project Rover
Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904–1968), 147, 151 ff, 158, 162, 170, 192, 211, 217, 223 f, 234, 237, 251
Orion space vehicle, 253, 256
Orlicz, Wladislaw, 26
Ouspenski, James B., 159
Oxtoby, John, 84 ff
Paley, Raymond, 93
Pasta, John, 226 ff, 257
Pauli, Wolfgang, 45, 221, 261
Perlman, Selig, 125
Perrin, Francis, 251
Peterson, Donald, 259
physics, 30, 81, 98, 104, 112, 132, 147 ff, 162, 164 ff, 189, 203 ff, 216, 221, 226, 233, 235, 250, 261, 286, 296 ff
aerodynamics, 136 f
astrophysics, 258
complementarity, 168
constants, 148, 169, 204, 205
electromagnetism, 30, 279, 299
elementary particles, 112, 205, 235, 261, 296
entropy, 294, 298
hydrodynamics, 136 f, 148, 185, 196, 279
isotopes, 233
mechanics, 99, 137, 144, 147 f, 257
mesons, 235
neutrons, 148, 153, 159, 177, 197, 213
partons, 297
quantum theory, 30, 67, 77, 81, 92, 97 f, 112, 132, 148, 165 ff, 205, 245, 251, 262, 279, 287, 295, 299 f
relativity, 18, 37, 81, 105, 112, 164, 221, 295 f
statistical mechanics, 31, 132
vacuum, polarization of, 157
Pilsudski, Jozef, 15
Placzek, George, 158, 192
Plateau, Joseph, 113
Plato, 175, 237
Plesch, Arpad, 108
Plesch, Janos, 108, 239
Poincaré, Henri (1854–1912), 21, 25, 45, 62, 82, 98, 180, 228, 275, 289, 291, 295
Polya, George, 60, 180
Porter, Keith, 302
Possel, René de, 58
Princeton, 47, 49, 62, 65 ff, 72 ff, 83, 102, 104, 107, 110, 113, 122, 132, 135, 141, 202, 213, 225, 229, 244
Project Rover, 250, 252, 254;
see also nuclear propulsion
Proust, Marcel, 182
Puck, Theodore, 259 f
Quine, Willard, 87
Rabi, Isaac Isidore, 111, 161, 215, 223, 239
radiation, 148, 177, 216, 259, 261, 267
Rainey, Rupert, 175
Rarita, William, 152
Richardson, James, 100
Richardson, James H., 225
Richtmyer, Robert, 186, 192 f, 263, 266
Riemann, Bernhard, 295
Ries, Minna, 47
Riesz, Fredrick, 110
rocket propulsion systems, 254 ff;
see also Orion; Project Rover
Roeberg, Jane, 153
Rosen, Henryk, 108
Rosenbluth, Marshall, 220
Rota, Gian-Carlo, 72, 104, 129, 207, 263 ff, 268, 291
Rubinowicz, Wojciech, 31
Russell, Bertrand, 118, 137
Ruziewicz, Stanislaw, 22, 40
Samuelson, Paul, 86
Schauder, Juliusz (1896–1943), 39, 67
Scherr, Ruben, 168
Schmidt, Wolfgang, 268
Schouten, Jan A., 119
Schrandt, Robert, 201
Schreier, Jozef, 43, 58, 78, 82