John von Neumann · 2020-05-07 · John von Neumann (/vɒn nɔɪmən/; Hungarian: Neumann János...

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John von Neumann (/vɒn n̍ɔɪmən/; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos, pronounced [n̍ɒjmɒn j̍anːoʃ l̍ɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. Von Neumann was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians"; who integrated both pure and applied sciences. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, representation theory, operator algebras, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.