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John Von Neumann

John von Neumann (Hungarian: margittai Neumann János Lajos) was a Hungarian American[1] mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields,[2] including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields. He is generally regarded as one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century. The mathematician Jean Dieudonné called von Neumann "the last of the great mathematicians." Even in Budapest, in the time that produced Szilárd (1898), Wigner (1902), and Teller (1908) his brilliance stood out. Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed), and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata and the universal constructor. Along with Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.

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Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

Born 1903
Died 1957

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  • Cover of: Continuous geometry

    First published in 1936 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1944 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Entwicklung und Ausnutzung Neuerer Mathematischer Maschinen / Rechenautomaten Im Dienste der Technik

    First published in 1955 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Operator Algebras, Quantizatiion, and Noncommutative Geometry: A Centennial Celebration Honoring John von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone (Contemporary Mathematics)

    First published in 2004 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Вычислительная машина и мозг

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  • Cover of: Die Rechenmaschine und das Gehirn

    First published in 2014 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Can we survive technology?

    First published in 1955 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Collected works

    First published in 1961 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Theory of self-reproducing automata

    First published in 1966 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Functional Operators

    First published in 1969 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik

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  • Cover of: Die Rechenmaschine und das Gehirn: Das Amerikanische Original übersetzten Charlotte Gumin und Heinz Gumin

    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Theory of games and economic behavior

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  • Cover of: Functional operators

    First published in 1965 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik

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  • Cover of: Continuous geometry

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  • Cover of: John Von Neumann papers

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  • Cover of: First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC

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  • Cover of: Lectures on probabilistic logics and the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components

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Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

Born 1903
Died 1957

Subjects

Functional analysis, Computers, Mathematics, Continuous groups, Correspondence, Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Topology, Continuous geometries, Game theory, Mathematicians, Operator theory, Probabilities, Projective Geometry, Quantum theory, Ballistics, Collected works, Congresses, Cybernetics, Economics, mathematical, Electronic digital computers, Faculty, Functions, orthogonal, Games, Geometry, Geometry, Projective

Places

United States, Hungary

People

John Von Neumann (1903-1957), Rudolf Ortvay (1885-1945), Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), Abraham Haskel Taub (1911-), Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Carl Eckart (1902-1973), Cuthbert Corwin Hurd (1911-1996), Edward Teller (1908-2003), Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995), Eva Aldor, Frank Aydelotte (1880-1956), Garrett Birkhoff (1911-1996), George B. Dantzig (1914-2001), George B. Kistiakowsky (1900-1982), George Gamow (1904-1968), Hans A. Bethe (1906-2005), Herman H. Goldstine (1913-2004), Hermann Weyl (1885-1955), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), Klara Dan Von Neumann, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), L. van Hove, Lewis L. Strauss, Marshall H. Stone (1903-1989)

Time

20th century

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April 23, 2023 Edited by Tuxeye Edited without comment.
April 23, 2023 Edited by Tuxeye Added new photo
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