Stan found using directed search

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X and I did some “Sampling Through Adaptive Neighborhoods” ourselves the other day and checked out the nearby grave of Stanislaw Ulam, who is buried with his wife, Françoise Aron, and others of her family.

You can find a picture of Stanislaw and Françoise Ulam in this charming mini-biography from Roland Brasseur, which I found here.

P.S. The Cimetière Montparnasse is full of famous people, including the great political scientist Raymond Aron (who perhaps has no close relation to Françoise Aron, given that his grave is listed as being in a different block of the cemetery), but the only other one we saw that day was Henri Poincaré.

7 thoughts on “Stan found using directed search

  1. Thanks for that. I’ll go there next time I’m in Paris. I’d like to see Ulam’s grave, but I’d REALLY like to see Poincaré’s grave.

  2. @Andrew I hope the rotation wasn’t a subtle joke, because I fixed it. And too bad you did this on the last day I was in Paris, or I’d have gone with.

    @Blaise: I’d think with a name like yours, you’d want to see Pascal’s grave. His grave’s apparently also in Paris, in a Church no less, Eglise Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (and what’s with those hyphens?). X’s blog also has a post on the visit, with a photo of Poincaré’s grave.

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