Noun
United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957)
Source: WordNetAlan Turing and John von Neumann were instrumental in these developments. Source: Internet
As John von Neumann, the father of game theory, knew, the human always gets in the way of the mathematical model. Source: Internet
Commenting on this, other writers (such as John von Neumann von Neumann, J. (1932/1955). Source: Internet
Émile Borel and John von Neumann had the fundamental and surprising insight that probability provides a way out of this conundrum. Source: Internet
He left Cambridge in 1986 to take up the appointment to the John von Neumann Chair of Mathematics at Princeton University. Source: Internet
Immediately after Ulam's breakthrough, John von Neumann understood its importance and programmed the ENIAC computer to carry out Monte Carlo calculations. Source: Internet