The Manhattan Project, the first electronic computer and the Monte Carlo method

DOI10.1515/MCMA-2016-0102MaRDI QIDQ254497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dobriyan M. Benov

Publication date 8 March 2016

Published in Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/mcma-2016-0102

zbMATH Keywords

Monte CarloEDVACENIACFERMIACManhattan ProjectMANIACstochastic model of physical processesUlamvon Neumann

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) History of numerical analysis (65-03)

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