John von Neumann

John von Neumann

A community portal about John von Neumann with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John von Neumann was a Hungarian -born mathematician and polymath who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set... [more]

A community portal about John von Neumann with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John von Neumann was a Hungarian -born mathematician and polymath who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics, statistics and many other mathematical fields as one of history's outstanding mathematicians. Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the modern digital computer and the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, a member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the creator of game theory and the concept of cellular automata. 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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