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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John Von Neumann
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Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Born | 1903 |
Died | 1957 |
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John Von Neumann
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Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Born | 1903 |
Died | 1957 |
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Functional analysis, Mathematics, Computers, Game theory, Quantum theory, Continuous groups, Mathematical Economics, Probabilities, Topology, Continuous geometries, Correspondence, Cybernetics, Economics, Games, Matrix mechanics, Operator theory, Projective Geometry, Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Collected works, Economics, mathematical, Electronic digital computers, Geometry, Machine theory, Mathematicians, Nervous systemPeople
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 HoveID Numbers
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- Wikidata: Q17455
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