> How did the method get the name “Monte Carlo”? > The name, of course, is an allusion to the famous casino, a prodigious producer and consumer of randomness.

> How did the method get the name “Monte Carlo”? > The name, of course, is an allusion to the famous casino, a prodigious producer and consumer of randomness. Nicholas Metropolis claimed credit for coming up with the term. In a 1987 retrospective he wrote: ... Here is the 1987 retrospective by N. Metropolis (6 pages): https://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00326866.pdf https://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00326866.pdf