BigDataFr recommends: Factoring Massive Numbers: Monte Carlo Analysis and Simulation

[…] The Monte Carlo method is an simple way to solve very difficult probabilistic problems. This text is a very simple, didactic introduction to this subject, a mixture of history, mathematics and mythology.

The method has origins in the World War II, proposed by the Polish American mathematician Stanislaw Ulam and Hungary American mathematician John Von Neumann.
It is not a coincidence these scientists were European that came to the United States. Several world class scientists did the same, escaping from the Nazis and their military domination. […]

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By Arnaldo Gunzi
Source: analyticbridge.com