John von Neumann ( ; ; 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. 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.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 The National Academy of Sciences published a biographical memoir by Salomon Bochner. In addition, obituaries were written in several other journals, including the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Matematikai Lapok, Physics Today, Science, Mathematics of Computation and The Economic Journal. Books,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 scientific papers,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 and events have been dedicated to him.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
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. 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.
Other awards and honors he received include the following.
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 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 AccomplishmentIts 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" 1997 Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Award (Posthumous) 1997 Hall of Fame, Space Command Headquarters, Peterson Air Force Base (Posthumous) 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
See also List of things named after John von Neumann
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