Von Neumann

[von noi-mahn, -muhn]

noun

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

von Neumann

/ 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 )

Example Sentences

It was back in 1958 that the concept of "the singularity" was attributed posthumously to Hungarian-born mathematician John von Neumann.

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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.

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Von Neumann is “searching for absolute truth, and he really believed that he would find a mathematical basis for reality, a land free from contradictions and paradoxes.”

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The novel's final section, a thrilling human-versus-machine matchup, points to what von Neumann had wrought—and reflects the warnings of Labatut's Wigner.

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The von Neumann section, constituting the bulk of the book, is blessedly lighter.

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