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

This season, we focus on Klára Dán Von Neumann, who wrote some of the earliest lines of computer code, in the 1940s.

From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2022

Von Neumann came of age when mathematics wasn’t considered a “practical” profession.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 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

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