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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: Theory of games and economic behavior
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  • Cover of: Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computing Theory
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  • Cover of: Entwicklung und Ausnutzung Neuerer Mathematischer Maschinen / Rechenautomaten Im Dienste der Technik

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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)

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Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

Born 1903
Died 1957

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Mathematics, Functional analysis, Game theory, Computers, Mathematical Economics, Probabilities, Quantum theory, Continuous groups, Economics, Games, Topology, Continuous geometries, Correspondence, Cybernetics, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Matrix mechanics, Operator theory, Projective Geometry, Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Collected works, Electronic digital computers, Geometry, Machine theory, Mathematicians, Nervous system

Places

United States, Hungary

People

John Von Neumann (1903-1957), Rudolf Ortvay (1885-1945), Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), Abraham Haskel Taub (1911-), Alan Turing, 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), John von Neumann, Klara Dan Von Neumann, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), L. van Hove

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1956, 20th century

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April 23, 2023 Edited by tux_scholar Edited without comment.
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September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
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