Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators

During his forty-year association with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam wrote many Laboratory Reports, usually in collaboration with colleagues. Some of them remain classified to this day. The rest are gathered in this volume and for the first time are easily accesible to mathematicians, physical scientists, and historians.

The timeliness of these papers is remarkable. They contain seminal ideas in such fields as nonlinear stochastic processes, parallel compu...