Analysis suggests that the two pioneers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr and John von Neumann, may have had more similar views than previously thought regarding the nature of quantum systems, and the ...

In May, we lost after a long and full life of ninety years the economist Marina von Neumann Whitman. Among a host of accomplishments, von Neumann Whitman was the first to coin a name, in the mid-1970s ...

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John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

Goldstine explained the ENIAC project, a room-sized machine of vacuum tubes designed for wartime calculations. Von Neumann instantly realized that computers could change far more than military ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Jorge Nocedal has been awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Nocedal, Walter P.

Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, ...