Definitions for John Von Neumann
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1. von Neumann, Neumann, John von Neumannnoun

   United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957)

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1. john von neumann

   John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath who made significant contributions across many scientific disciplines in the 20th century. He is best known for his role in developing the concept of a stored-program computer (also known as the von Neumann architecture) and for his work in the field of quantum mechanics. His other accomplishments include notable contributions to game theory, statistics, and mathematical economics. Von Neumann was also a key participant in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

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1. John von Neumann

   John von Neumann was a Hungarian-born American pure and applied mathematician and polymath. He was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, in the development of functional analysis, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor, and the digital computer. Von Neumann's mathematical analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA. In a short list of facts about his life he submitted to the National Academy of Sciences, he stated "The part of my work I consider most essential is that on quantum mechanics, which developed in Göttingen in 1926, and subsequently in Berlin in 1927–1929. Also, my work on various forms of operator theory, Berlin 1930 and Princeton 1935–1939; on the ergodic theorem, Princeton, 1931–1932." Along with 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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Examples of John Von Neumann in a Sentence

1. Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984:

   The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

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