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• Von Neumann
  Von Neumann

  noun

  John, 1903–57, U.S. mathematician, born in Hungary.
• von Neumann
  von Neumann

  noun

  John. 1903–57, US mathematician, born in Hungary. He formulated game theory and contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and to the development of the stored-program computer ( von Neumann machine )

Von Neumann

American  

[von noi-mahn, -muhn] / vɒn ˈnɔɪ mɑn, -mən /

noun

1. John, 1903–57, U.S. mathematician, born in Hungary.

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von Neumann British  

/ fɒn, vɒn ˈnjuːmən /

noun

1. John. 1903–57, US mathematician, born in Hungary. He formulated game theory and contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and to the development of the stored-program computer ( von Neumann machine )

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Example Sentences

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From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2022

By the 1970s, Connes had made strides towards a complete classification of particular systems of operators known as Von Neumann algebras.

From Nature • Sep. 28, 2020

John Von Neumann had an answer to that question at a seminar at the IAS in Princeton in the late 1940s.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2018

When people talk about human genius, John Von Neumann often pops up.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2017

Through his boss at Birkbeck, JD Bernal, he got a six-month Rockefeller Scholarship to Princeton which he spent time talking to computer pioneer John Von Neumann.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2016