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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that ...

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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how comp...

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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer tech...

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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a sta...

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John von Neumann

Mathematician

Born: 1903-12-28

Died: 1957-02-08

John von Neumann (28 December 1903 – 8 February 1957) was a Hungarian-American-Jewish mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, 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.More