Neumann

Speech parts

1. Neumann - Noun

2. Neumann - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

von Neumann Newman Neuman John von Neumann Numan Neiman

Phrases with the word

Munroe-Neumann effect Neumann effect von Neumann stability analysis

Examples

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence. Stanislaw Ulam

My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. Reinhard Selten

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. Freeman Dyson

Neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms. Willis Lamb

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. William Poundstone

[At Princeton Samuel Wilks...] was the major interest for me... I did have a contact with Oscar Morgenstern... Von Neumann was developing theory of games at the time... but I must say, I really didn't understand it very well when he lectured it. Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Close letter words and terms

Neulussheim neum Neuman Neumann effect neumatic Neumayer