John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American polymath who made major contributions to fields including mathematics, physics, computing, and economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of his time and integrated both pure and applied sciences. Von Neumann developed the Von Neumann architecture for computer design and made important advances in areas such as functional analysis, quantum mechanics, and game theory.
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Neumann-1958 The Computer and The Brain PDF
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American polymath who made major contributions to fields including mathematics, physics, computing, and economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of his time and integrated both pure and applied sciences. Von Neumann developed the Von Neumann architecture for computer design and made important advances in areas such as functional analysis, quantum mechanics, and game theory.
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John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈ nɔɪmən/; Hungarian:
Neumann János Lajos, pronounced [ˈ nɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈ
lɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian- American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. Von Neumann was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians"; who integrated both pure and applied sciences. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, representation theory, operator algebras, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.
(IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 357) Zinoviy L. Rabinovich (Auth.), John Impagliazzo, Eduard Proydakov (Eds.) - Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing_ First IFIP WG 9