John von Neumann
1903-1957 · Budapest → Berlin → Göttingen → Hamburg → Princeton (IAS) → Los Alamos → Washington · Hungarian-Jewish bourgeoisie; Central-European mathematical tradition; American postwar science establishment
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Primary works· 16
- 1925Eine Axiomatisierung der Mengenlehre· German
- 1928Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele· German
- 1929Allgemeine Eigenwerttheorie Hermitescher Funktionaloperatoren· German
- 1932Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik· German
- 1932Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis· English
- 1936-1943On Rings of Operators (I-IV, with F. J. Murray)· English
- 1936The Logic of Quantum Mechanics (with G. Birkhoff)· English
- 1937/1945A Model of General Economic Equilibrium· German/English
- 1944Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (with O. Morgenstern)· English
- 1945First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC· English
- 1946Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument (with Burks and Goldstine)· English
- 1950A Method for the Numerical Calculation of Hydrodynamic Shocks (with Richtmyer)· English
- 1951Various Techniques Used in Connection with Random Digits· English
- 1958The Computer and the Brain· English
- 1960Continuous Geometry (ed. Halperin)· English
- 1966Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (ed. Burks)· English
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