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thatsmaths.com
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| | | | | With unique and outstanding achievements in mathematics and science, John von Neumann was on an intellectual level far above us; the oft-misused term genius truly applies to him. Von Neumann, brilliant in both pure and applied mathematics, was a towering figure of 20th century science. As a child, he demonstrated a prodigious memory and computational... | |
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| | | | | Recommending a few books which touch on aspects of the Manhattan Project: The Last Man who Knew Everything: the life and times of Enrico Fermi - David Schwartz Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves - Robert S Norris The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut The Last Man who Knew Everything is a historical and scientific biography of Enrico Fermi. We learn about Fermi, his work, and best of all we hear the story of the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reaction under the University of Chicago. | |
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www.jeremiecoullon.com
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| | | | | This post is the first of a two-part series on early Monte Carlo methods from the 1940s and 1950s. Although Monte Carlo methods had been previously hinted at (for example Buffons needle), these methods only started getting serious attention in the 1940s with the development of fast computers. In 1949 a conference on Monte Carlo was held in Los Angeles in which the participants - many of them legendary mathematicians, physicists, and statisticians - shared their work involving Monte Carlo methods. It can ... | |
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jamesgregson.blogspot.com
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| | | Dual Contouring is a method for meshing implicit surfaces, or surfaces which are defined as the level-set of scalar function. Conceptually... | ||
