{"id":768,"date":"2022-01-12T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademiasuperbohaterow.pl\/superbohaterowie\/stanislaw-ulam\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:36:19","slug":"stanislaw-ulam","status":"publish","type":"ntl_superhero","link":"https:\/\/akademiasuperbohaterow.pl\/en\/superheroes\/stanislaw-ulam\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanis\u0142aw Ulam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Stanislaw’s family was of Jewish descent. When he was five years old, the First World War broke out. He survived it with his parents in Vienna. Upon his return to Lviv, he started school. Several coincidences caused him to become interested in mathematics. In his home library, he found the book Elements of Algebra<\/em> by Eurler. He was intrigued by the unfamiliar signs and symbols. He tried hard to understand them just as he tried to understand\u00a0 Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity<\/em>, then widely described. At the age of fifteen, he began reading books by Waclaw Sierpinski on differential calculus, group theory, and number theory. In 1927, he enrolled at the Lviv Technical University, wanting to become an engineer or mechanic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":756,"template":"","categories":[281],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n