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The Monte Carlo Method

Nicholas Metropolis, S. Ulam

Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1949 · Volume 44 · Issue 247

DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1949.10483310

Abstract

We shall present here the motivation and a general description of a method dealing with a class of problems in mathematical physics. The method is, essentially, a statistical approach to the study of differential equations, or more generally, of integro-differential equations that occur in various branches of the natural sciences.

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