John von Neumann
Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist who made foundational contributions to game theory, quantum mechanics, and the architecture of the first automatic computers. He also played a key role in the Manhattan Project and the development of early computing theory.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- ETH ZurichUniversity of Göttingen
- Awards
- 🏆 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Lipót Fejér
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Maurice Pryce
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Trending topics shown first"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
"It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it …"
"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number — there ar…"
"Oral history interview with Alice R. Burks and Arthur W. Burks at Charles Babbage Institute"
"You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and mor…"
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1903
Born
Birth1957
Died
Death
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