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Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific...
Born in Hungary two years before the publication of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Von Neumann grew up during the scientific breakthrough that produced the quantum theory, nuclear physics, the atomic and hydrogen bombs. After studying and teaching at leading European universities, he came to the U.S. in 1930 to teach mathematical physics at Princeton, moved on in 1933 to join the Institute for Advanced Study. He became a U.S. citizen...
...Contributions. No list of Von Neumann's honors and achievements more than hints at the strange, exciting world in which he lived so cheerily. His mathematical theories-e.g., set theory, ergodic theory-mean little to most laymen, but many of them have a way of showing up in unexpected and important places. His famous Theory of Games, for instance, is used to figure Air Force strategy. A whole school of mathematical economists is applying it to economic and sociological problems, including the behavior of the stock market...
...rumors; the highest-flying ones these days have to do with the next consistory. During recent months the Pope has been variously reported to be 1) planning to call his third consistory this winter or spring, 2) unwilling to call a consistory because of a prophecy (by Mystic Therese Neumann) that he will die after his third, 3) working on a reorganization of the Sacred College of Cardinals that would increase its membership from...
...Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...