Paul Olum - Wikipedia
WEBPaul Olum (August 16, 1918 – January 19, 2001) was an American mathematician (algebraic topology), professor of mathematics, and university administrator.
Leading Cornell mathematician Paul Olum, who became president …
WEBJan 26, 2001 · Mathematician Paul Olum, who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, became chair of the mathematics department at Cornell University and then provost and president of the University of Oregon, died Jan. 19 in Sharon, Mass. He was 82.
Paul Olum, Who Helped Develop Atomic Bomb, Dies at 82
WEBJan 27, 2001 · BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Paul Olum, who worked on the top-secret project that developed the atomic bomb and later became a passionate opponent of nuclear weapons, has died at age 82 in Natick, Mass.
Presidential History | Office of the President - University of Oregon
WEBPaul Olum. President 1980-1989. Leading by example, rather than mere management style, President Olum felt strongly that the growing national stature of the University of Oregon was well deserved.
WEBProfessor Emeritus Paul Olum, formerly of the Department of Mathematics at Cornell, died on January 19, 2001 in Natick, Massachusetts, having suffered for some years from a variant of Alzheimer’s disease.
70 Years After Hiroshima, Disarmament Is Still Vital
WEBAug 2, 2015 · Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, World War II was over -- and Paul Olum became a lifelong advocate of nuclear arms control and disarmament. A little over 70 years ago, Paul Olum stood with his colleagues in the desert near Alamogordo, NM.
Paul Olum - Nuclear Museum
WEBPaul Olum (1918-2001) was an American theoretical physicist at Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945. Olum was born in 1918 in Binghamton, New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1940, and received his M.A. from Princeton in 1942.
Topology | pi.math.cornell.edu - Cornell University
WEBTopology took off at Cornell thanks to Paul Olum who joined the faculty in 1949 and built up a group including Israel Berstein, William Browder, Peter Hilton, and Roger Livesay. Together they founded the Cornell Topology Festival in …
Full article: Solving the Olum 2 cipher: a new approach to ...
WEBDec 16, 2021 · Olum 2 is one of two ciphers created more than 75 years ago by mathematician Paul Olum to challenge his Manhattan Project officemate, physicist Richard Feynman. In this manuscript, I describe the first successful decryption of Olum 2 using a novel approach to cryptanalysis of transposition ciphers.
Past Presidents at the U of O - University of Oregon
WEBPaul Olum. The U of O's 13th president, Paul Olum, became president in 1980, after serving nine months as acting president. His educational background was in mathematics: early in his career he worked as a theoretical physicist in Los Alamitos, NM for the Manhattan Project, the first atomic bomb.
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