Nicholas Metropolis



         


Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 - October 17, 1999) was a mathematician and physicist. Metropolis contributed several original ideas to mathematics and physics. Perhaps the most widely known is the Monte Carlo method.

He died in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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