Editing Nicholas Metropolis (section)

==Anecdotes==
In his memoirs,<ref>S. M. Ulam, Adventures of a mathematician, California University press</ref> [[Stanislaw Ulam]] remembers that a small group, including himself, Metropolis, [[John Williams Calkin|Calkin]], [[Emil Konopinski|Konopinski]], [[George Kistiakowsky|Kistiakowsky]], [[Edward Teller|Teller]] and [[John von Neumann|von Neumann]], spent several evenings at [[Los Alamos, New Mexico|Los Alamos]] playing poker. They played for very small sums, but: "Metropolis once described what a triumph it was to win ten dollars from John von Neumann, author of a famous treatise on game theory. He then bought his book for five dollars and pasted the other five inside the cover as a symbol of his victory." In another passage of his book, Ulam describes Metropolis as "a Greek-American with a wonderful personality."