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

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

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, as you know, was one of the geniuses of the 20th century — the hydrogen bomb, computing, economics.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 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