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