John Von Neumann was a very famous mathematician/ scientist whose work influenced theories and formulas we still use in the 21st century. He worked with many other influential mathematicians and scientists. His work influenced game theory, the quantum theory, automata theory, and defense planning. Von Neumann was a hard worker and was always working on new and old projects from when he began his career until the day he died.
John Von Neumann was born on december 28th, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary into a Jewish family. Von Neumann’s original name before changing was János Neumann. His father Miksa Neumann also known as Max Neumann was a banker and huge influence on John. His mother Margit Kann also known as Margaret Kann came from a family
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This is where most of his work occurred and came from. He worked at the University of Berlin from 1927-1929. In 1932 he worked with Hilbert on quantum mechanics. He published the book ‘The mathematical foundations of Quantum mechanics’ (Poundstone). This book pleased many well known physicists such as Niels Bohr and Heisenberg and played a huge role in the quantum theory. In 1928 Neumann published the book “Theory of parlor games” (Poundstone). This book began his long legacy in game theory. He mostly focused on the game of poker. Game theory explained what bluffing was and defined it. He came up with the Minimax theorem. This asserts that for every finite, two-person zero-sum game, there is a rational outcome in the sense that two perfectly logical adversaries can arrive at a mutual choice of game strategies, confident that they could not expect to do better by choosing another strategy (“Von Neumann and the development of game theory.”). Von Neumann from 1930-1933 was appointed a visiting professor at Princeton University after he made a guest speech to students and professors. He wasn't known as a good professor. His lectures were fast and students did not like him well (Poundstone). After his time at Princeton in 1933 Von Neumann became the first professor at Institute for advanced study at Princeton. This is when Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and the war would soon take …show more content…
In 1944, Von Neumann created the ENIAC computer. It helped the US army and could predict weather. He used earlier work with game theory and rhetoric to help him in defense theory planning. From 1954-1956 Von Neumann was a member of the Atomic energy commision. It was a nuclear deterrence program under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was diagnosed with bone cancer in in 1955 but showing his work ethic continued to work even though his health was in a bad condition. In 1956 e received the Enrico Fermi Award. He died February 8th, 1957 from his condition but his math and science discoveries will live on. Most people have said that Von Neumann had a greater influence on the 20th century than any other mathematician out
possibility of atomic bombs. In 1941, he was brought into the atomic bomb project and was
Linus Carl Pauling was born on February 28, 1901, in Portland, Oregon, to Lucy Isabelle Darling and Herman Henry William Pauling. He is the oldest of three siblings, Lucile and Pauline. In September of 1906, Linus started attending at a local school in Condon, Oregon, and then went to Washington High School in Portland but did not receive his diploma until 1962 because of a technicality. He later attended Oregon State College in 1922 and
Michael Guillen, the author of Five Equations that Changed the World, choose five famous mathematician to describe. Each of these mathematicians came up with a significant formula that deals with Physics. One could argue that others could be added to the list but there is no question that these are certainly all contenders for the top five. The book is divided into five sections, one for each of the mathematicians. Each section then has five parts, the prologue, the Veni, the Vidi, the Vici, and the epilogue. The Veni talks about the scientists as a person and their personal life. The Vidi talks about the history of the subject that the scientist talks about. The Vici talks about how the mathematician came up with their most famous formula.
Turing continued working on the digital computer and ideas in artificial intelligence until he died on June 7, 1954. He was found with a half-eaten apple loaded with cyanide, the half-eaten apple a familiar symbol of innocence. Some say he had committed suicide over an embarrassing incident with a 19-year old student , while his mother says he was just performing another experiment with household chemicals and became careless. Whichever it may be, Alan Turing passed away and left the world with many raw ideas to work out. In my opinion, the biggest contribution that he left with us was his idea of a single machine running off a finite number of algorithms to perform multiple tasks. This being the vision of the computers we all use today.
He is well known for the General theory of relativity, which is a part of mathematics that is devoted to finitely generated groups of gravitation and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics, mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2, photoelectric effect is the observation of how many metal emit electrons when included in a collection of light shine on them, the Einstein field equations are a set of ten equations included Einstein’s general theory of relativity, Bose-Einstein statistics are one ...
Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Samuel Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Kamianets-Podilskyi, then in the Russian Empire, in today's Ukraine. His mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, was a housewife from New York. Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, he mother she never knew.
Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn; in 1942 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton. Already displaying his brilliance, Feynman played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb through his work in the Manhattan Project. In 1945 he became a physics teacher at Cornell University, and in 1950 he became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He, along with Sin-Itero and Julian Schwinger, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in the field of quantum electrodynamics.
...st important scientists in history. It is said that they both shaped the sciences and mathematics that we use and study today. Euclid’s postulates and Archimedes’ calculus are both important fundamentals and tools in mathematics, while discoveries, such Archimedes’ method of using water to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object, helped shaped all of today’s physics and scientific principles. It is for these reasons that they are remembered for their contributions to the world of mathematics and sciences today, and will continue to be remembered for years to come.
He has significantly altered our view of the world with his Theory of Relativity. The other one is not so well known, his works are commonly associated with Einstein instead. His name is Heisenberg. He is a narrator. He worked mainly in Quantum Physics and was responsible for the development of the Principle of Uncertainty.
There are so many amazing men and women from this time period that really affected the way the world is today. Generations carry out through generations and on and on, the world will never stop growing and expanding in knowledge. It is a crazy thought that one day we may know everything. Although, that is highly unlikely because the world around us is always changing. It is a here today gone tomorrow kind of thing. Mathematics has also improved the way we live by improving technology. With technology we have come a long way, advancing in travel, internet, and just about everything else around you. It is crazy how one thing can link to the next. Ernst Kummer’s role in the world of mathematics did not just stop when he died because it is still being added to today, about one-hundred and twenty years later!
John von Neumann introduced Game theory in 1928 when he proved his minimax theorem, the theorem postulates that in a zero-sum game (a confrontation with a persons gain being of opposite value to the competitors loss) with perfect information, certain strategies can minimize their maximum losses, to perceive one of these strategies, the player has to consider the responses of his opponent.
He later became interested in physics, through the inspiration of Dirac, Turing and Godel. He attended their lectures at Cambridge and found them fascinating. However, he continued his works in mathematics, receiving a Ph.D in Algebraic Geometry. He is famous for his aperiodic tilings, his collaboration with Stephen Hawking on black holes, and especially for his books on consciousness such as The Emporer's New Mind. A less-well-known achievement on his part was the development of twistor geometry, a concept that will be explained in further depth later on.
As stated before, Nash was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia. He is the son of his father, John Nash Sr., an electrotecnician, and his mother, Virginia Martin, a language teacher. It is said that when he was a young boy he converted his room into a laboratory and spent much of his time experimenting and doing research.
Von Neumann architecture, or the Von Neumann model, stems from a 1945 computer architecture description by the physicist, mathematician, and polymath John von Neumann and others. This describes a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter , external mass storage, subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of arithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a memory to store both data and commands, also an input and output mechanisms. The meaning of the term has grown to mean a stored-program computer in which a command fetch and a data operation cannot occur at the same time because they share a common bus. This is commonly referred to as the Von Neumann bottleneck and often limits the performance of a system.
Carl Friedrich Gauss is revered as a very important man in the world of mathematicians. The discoveries he completed while he was alive contributed to many areas of mathematics like geometry, statistics, number theory, statistics, and more. Gauss was an extremely brilliant mathematician and that is precisely why he is remembered all through today. Although Gauss left many contributions in each of the aforementioned fields, two of his discoveries in the fields of mathematics and astronomy seem to have had the most tremendous effect on modern day mathematics.