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John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ von NOY-mən; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.
Von Neumann was twice invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.[1] The May 1958 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society was dedicated as a memorial volume (in an act without precedent) to von Neumann and eight articles were written about him and his work by friends and colleagues.[2][3] The National Academy of Sciences published a biographical memoir by Salomon Bochner.[4]In addition, obituaries were written in several other journals, including the Journal of the London Mathematical Society,[5] Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,[6] Matematikai Lapok,[7] Physics Today,[8] Science,[9] Mathematics of Computation[10] and The Economic Journal.[11] Books,[12][13] scientific papers,[14][15][16] and events have been dedicated to him.[17]
In honor of his achievements and contributions to the modern world, he was named in 1999 the Financial Times Person of the Century, as a representative of the century's characteristic ideal that the power of the mind could shape the physical world, and of the "intellectual brilliance and human savagery" that defined the 20th century.[18][19][20] On May 4, 2005, the United States Postal Service issued the American Scientists commemorative postage stamp series, a set of four 37-cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations designed by artist Victor Stabin. The scientists depicted were von Neumann, Barbara McClintock, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Richard Feynman.[21]
Other awards and honors he received include the following.[22][23][24]
Awards:
- 1926 Rockefeller Fellowship
- 1937 Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society
- 1947 Medal for Merit (Presidential Award)
- 1947 Distinguished Civilian Service Award, U.S. Navy
- 1955 Science Award, Air Force Association[25]
- 1956 Medal of Freedom (Presidential Award)
- 1956 Albert Einstein Commemorative Award
- 1956 Enrico Fermi Award, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- 1957 American Meteorological Society Award for Extraordinary Scientific Accomplishment[26][27]
- 1997 Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Award (Posthumous)[28]
- 1997 Hall of Fame, Space Command Headquarters, Peterson Air Force Base (Posthumous)[29]
Honorary societies:
- Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Lima, Peru
- Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, Italy
- National Academy of Sciences
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Letters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Honorary doctorates:
- 1947 Princeton University
- 1949 University of Pennsylvania
- 1949 Harvard University
- 1952 University of Istanbul
- 1952 Case Institute of Technology
- 1952 University of Maryland
- 1953 Polytechnics Institut, Munich
- 1954 Columbia University
Honorary positions:
- 1937 American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturer
- 1944 Gibbs Lecturer, American Mathematical Society
- 1951-1953 President, American Mathematical Society
- 1953 Vanuxem Lecturer, Princeton University
- 1950-1957 Member, board of advisors, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
- ^ O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. "International Congresses of Mathematicians". MacTutor History of Mathematics. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ AMS :: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. -- Volume 64, Number 3 Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society Volume 64, Number 3, Part 2 John von Neumann, 1903-1957
- ^ Halperin, Israel (1990). "The Extraordinary Inspiration of John von Neumann". In Glimm, James; Impagliazzo, John; Singer, Isadore Manuel (eds.). The Legacy of John von Neumann. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4219-5.
- ^ Bochner, S. (1958). "John von Neumann 1903–1957: A Biographical Memoir" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Smithies, F. (1959). "John von Neumann". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. s1-34 (3): 373–384. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-34.3.373.
- ^ Teller, Edward (1957). "John Von Neumann". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 13 (4): 150–151. Bibcode:1957BuAtS..13d.150T. doi:10.1080/00963402.1957.11457538.
- ^ "NEUMANN JÁNOS". Matematikai Lapok. 8. 1957.
- ^ "John von Neumann". Physics Today. 10 (4): 58. 1957. doi:10.1063/1.3060351.
- ^ Goldstine, Herman H.; Wigner, Eugene (1957). "Scientific Work of J. von Neumann". Science. 125 (3250): 683–684. Bibcode:1957Sci...125..683.. doi:10.1126/science.125.3250.683. PMID 17796247.
- ^ Tompkins, Charles Brown (1957). "John von Neumann, 1903–1957". Mathematics of Computation. 11 (58): 127–128. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1957-0086002-9.
- ^ Morgenstern, Oskar (1958). "John von Neumann 1903-57". The Economic Journal. 68 (269): 170–174. doi:10.1093/ej/68.269.170.
- ^ Halmos, Paul R. (1985). I Want To Be A Mathematician: an Automathography. New York: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1084-9. ISBN 978-0-387-96078-4. OCLC 11497873.
- ^ Further examples: Norm Ideals of Completely Continuous Operators; Modeling and Computations in Dynamical Systems; Games and Decisions; Proving Darwin; Contributions to the Theory of Games; The Method of Critical Curves for Discrete Dynamical Systems in Two Dimensions; Dynamics of Climate
- ^ Glimm, James; Impagliazzo, John; Singer, Isadore Manuel, eds. (1990). The Legacy of John von Neumann. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4219-5.
- ^ Doran, Robert S.; Kadison, Richard V., eds. (2004). Operator Algebras, Quantization, and Noncommutative Geometry: A Centennial Celebration Honoring John von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone. Washington, D.C.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-3402-2.
- ^ Further examples: A matrix lower bound (Technical Report); John von Neumann; Differential Equivalence Classes for Metric Projections and Optimal Backward Errors; Min-max identities on boundaries of convex sets around the origin (Technical Report); Article (33.2.24); Optimal Sensitivity Analysis of Linear Least Squares; Parallel machines and the "digital brain" — An intricate extrapolation on occasion of JvN's 100-th birthday
- ^ Examples: Report On The IEEE Systems, Man, And Cybernetics 2016 International Conference; List of publications by Domokos Skász; Deep Beauty: Understanding the Quantum World; Quantization, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and Operator Algebra; Joshua Lederberg - John von Neumann Symposium: Towards Quantitative Biology; AMS :: von Neumann Symposia; SIAM Conference on CS&E: John von Neumann at 100: SIAM Celebrates a Rich Legacy; John von Neumann Birthday Centennial; Primer pla de la conferència "Von Neumann i la teoria dels jocs" durant la Jornada Von Neumann de l'FME del curs 2009-2010; International Conference in Memoriam John von Neumann
- ^ Andrew Hill (14 December 2015). "Person of the Year: Past winners". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 18 September 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ Peter Martin (24 December 1999). "VON NEUMANN: Architect of the computer age". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "Every FT Person of the Year since 1970". Financial Times. 12 December 2017. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "American Scientists Issue". Arago: People, Postage & the Post. National Postal Museum. Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
- ^ Aspray, William (1990). "The Origins of John von Neumann's Theory of Automata". In Glimm, James; Impagliazzo, John; Singer, Isadore Manuel (eds.). The Legacy of John von Neumann. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4219-5.
- ^ Ulam, Stanislaw (1958). "John von Neumann 1903-1957" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (3): 1–49. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5.
- ^ "Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ "List of Theodore von Karman Award Recipients". Air & Space Forces Association. Archived from the original on 28 March 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ Its citation read: "for his farsighted contribution to the science of meteorology and the national interests in developing the modern, high-speed electronic computer with meteorological application as an ultimate aim, and for his support and encouragement in organizing the world's first research group in numerical weather prediction"
- ^ "DR. JOHN VON NEUMANN CITED FOR EXTRAORDINARY SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENT". Notices of the American Mathematical Society (22): 21. 1957.
- ^ "Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers". Air Force Space Command. Archived from the original on 8 September 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ Sheehan, Neil (2010). A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon. Vintage. p. 464. ISBN 978-0679745495.