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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: Entwicklung und Ausnutzung neuerer mathematischer Maschinen

    First published in 1955 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1945 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1949 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1999 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: John von Neumann selected letters

    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Lectures on probabilistic logics and the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components

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  • Cover of: The Neumann compendium
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    First published in 1995 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Neumann János és a "magyar titkok": a dokumentumok tükrében

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  • Cover of: Oblique reflection of shocks

    First published in 1943 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Proposal and analysis of a new numerical method for the treatment of hydrodynamical shock problems

    First published in 1944 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Theory of games and economic behavior.

    First published in 1953 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Theory of self-reproducing automata

    First published in 1966 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1947 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1961 — 1 edition
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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.
April 23, 2023 Edited by tux_scholar Added new photo
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
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