biography
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Von Neumann, John
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originally Johann Von Neumann
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pronunciation:
[noyman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–57)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Budapest, Hungary. The son of a wealthy Jewish banker, he emigrated to the USA (1933) to join the new Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He contributed to the creation of the atomic and hydrogen bombs and became a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1955). He is considered one of the last representatives of a group of great mathematicians who were equally at home in pure and applied mathematics and who produced steadily in both directions throughout their careers. Known for an exceptional ability to digest an enormous amount of extremely diverse material with amazing rapidity, he contributed to almost every facet of the mathematics of the 1930s. He was a founder of game theory, and worked in early computer science, theoretical physics, and numerical weather prediction. He is the co-author of The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944, with Oskar Morgenstern) and of many articles. |
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