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She was married to John Von Neumann, the famous Hungarian mathematician and computer pioneer–I certainly knew who that was.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 31, 2022
Von Neumann rejected most games as unsuitable to the task, especially those like checkers or chess in which both players can see all the pieces on the board and share the same information.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
Jones’s main focus continued to be Von Neumann algebras and their connections to other fields.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
Von Neumann and Metropolis sent more than 20,000 cards back to the nuclear scientists at Los Alamos, tracing the progress of simulated neutrons through detonating warheads.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
It was back in 1958 that the concept of "the singularity" was attributed posthumously to Hungarian-born mathematician John von Neumann.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
Game theory was first presented in "The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior," published in 1944 by mathematicians and economists Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2024
The von Neumann section, constituting the bulk of the book, is blessedly lighter.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
His latest is about John von Neumann, the Hungarian polymath whose work on the Manhattan Project led to breakthroughs in quantum physics that are still unfolding today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
As argued by John von Neumann in 1939, the number of such devices could increase exponentially with time if they self-replicate, a quality enabled by 3D printing and AI technologies.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022
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