It says "In the late 1940s, Stanislaw Ulam invented the modern version of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method", but as far as I know, this is incorrect. He invented a Monte Carlo method, but not a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Markov chain Monte Carlo is generally attributed to Metropolis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller, and Teller. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis-Hastings_algorithm
The article fails even to distinguish simple Monte Carlo based on independently sampled points from Markov chain Monte Carlo. It seems rather confused in other respects too, such as in its discussion of "mean field" methods.
It says "In the late 1940s, Stanislaw Ulam invented the modern version of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method", but as far as I know, this is incorrect. He invented a Monte Carlo method, but not a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Markov chain Monte Carlo is generally attributed to Metropolis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller, and Teller. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis-Hastings_algorithm
The article fails even to distinguish simple Monte Carlo based on independently sampled points from Markov chain Monte Carlo. It seems rather confused in other respects too, such as in its discussion of "mean field" methods.