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The Monte Carlo method was the name suggested by Metropolis in the late 1940th for a statistical approach to solving neutron diffusion and multiplication problems that was being developed at that time at the Los Alamos Laboratory (Metropolis 1987). The approach was outlined in a letter sent by von Neumann to the leader of the Theoretical Division, Richtmyer (Richtmyer and von Neumann 1947).
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Vassiliev, O.N. (2017). Introduction. In: Monte Carlo Methods for Radiation Transport. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44141-2_1
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