Directory of Neumann, John von Resources

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Born: 28 Dec 1903 in Budapest, Hungary Died: 8 Feb 1957 in Washington D.C., USA He built a solid framework for quantum mechanics, worked in game theory, was able to investigate spaces with continuously varying dimensions, and was one of the pioneers of computer science. He was involved in the development of the hydrogen bomb.

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• John von Neumann

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Von_Neumann.html
  Biography, links, and six photographs.

• John von Neumann

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
  Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]

• John von Neumann

  http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/von-neumann.html
  Brief biography along with details of a number of areas he worked in.

• Neumann, John von

  http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html
  Biography and references.

• Tools For Thought: Johnny Builds Bombs and Johnny Builds Brains

  http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/4.html
  By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on John von Neumann, nuclear bombs, early computers. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.

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