Abstract
Stan Ulam resented being labelled an intellectual. He would not even agree to being classified a mathematician. He referred to the published volume of his scientific papers as “a slim collection of poems.”
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Kac, M., Rota, GC., Schwartz, J.T. (1986). Ulam. In: Discrete Thoughts. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6667-4_22
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