John von Neumann

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Hungarian-American computer scientist economist human mathematician physicist polymath

John von Neumann was a pioneering 20th-century mathematician and polymath whose foundational work in game theory, computer science, quantum mechanics, and economics profoundly shaped modern science and technology.

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instanceOf	Hungarian-American ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ economist ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ physicist ⓘ polymath ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in mathematics ⓘ
awardReceived	Bôcher Memorial Prize ⓘ Enrico Fermi Award ⓘ Medal for Merit ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ
birthName	John von Neumann self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Neumann János Lajos
causeOfDeath	cancer ⓘ
child	Marina von Neumann Whitman ⓘ
citizenship	Hungary ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
coAuthor	Oskar Morgenstern ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Austrian Habsburg Monarchy ⓘ surface form: Austria-Hungary
countryOfDeath	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1903-12-28 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1957-02-08 ⓘ
educatedAt	ETH Zurich ⓘ Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ surface form: University of Berlin University of Budapest ⓘ
employer	Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ Los Alamos Laboratory ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ United States Atomic Energy Commission ⓘ surface form: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
era	20th century ⓘ
familyName	John von Neumann self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Neumann
fieldOfWork	computer science ⓘ econometrics ⓘ economics ⓘ ergodic theory ⓘ functional analysis ⓘ game theory ⓘ hydrodynamics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ operator algebras ⓘ quantum mechanics ⓘ set theory ⓘ statistics ⓘ
fullName	John von Neumann self-link ⓘ
givenName	Aribert ⓘ surface form: János
honorificPrefix	von ⓘ
influenced	economic theory ⓘ game theory ⓘ modern computer architecture ⓘ operations research ⓘ quantum information theory ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ
influencedBy	David Hilbert ⓘ Felix Klein ⓘ Hermann Weyl ⓘ
knownFor	EDVAC design ⓘ Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics ⓘ Monte Carlo method development ⓘ cellular automata ⓘ ergodic theorem ⓘ foundations of game theory ⓘ game-theoretic analysis of economics ⓘ linear programming foundations ⓘ measure theory contributions ⓘ expected utility theory (with John von Neumann) ⓘ surface form: minimax theorem numerical weather prediction ⓘ theory of self-adjoint operators ⓘ theory of self-replicating automata ⓘ von Neumann algebras ⓘ von Neumann architecture ⓘ von Neumann entropy ⓘ work on hydrogen bomb design ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ German ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ
memberOf	American Mathematical Society ⓘ American Philosophical Society ⓘ Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ surface form: National Academy of Sciences (United States)
notableConcept	von Neumann paradox in set theory ⓘ von Neumann regular ring ⓘ von Neumann stability analysis ⓘ von Neumann universe ⓘ von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory ⓘ expected utility theory (with John von Neumann) ⓘ surface form: von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
notableWork	First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC ⓘ Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics ⓘ Theory of Games and Economic Behavior ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Budapest ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
positionHeld	commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ⓘ professor at Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
spouse	Klara Dan ⓘ Mariette Kövesi ⓘ

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