John von neumann

John von Neumann has revolutionized the world of computing through his work on the Manhattan Project, the von Neumann (Princeton) Architecture, and the first IAS computer.

Game theory, computers, the atom bomb—these are just a few of things von Neumann played a role in developing, changing the 20th century for better and worse.

map of world with IAS based machines

Start the New Year by travelling 'Back to the Future'! In this virtual talk, discover the remarkable life of the revolutionary mathematical genius John von Neumann, a man who was key to the development of the computer.

An interactive, illustrated timeline of historic moments in humankind's quest for information. With annotations by Jeremy Norman.

A novelist transforms the physicist John von Neumann into a scientific demon.

Mortality on a Global Scale 29 August 1949 The Russians detonate their first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR and become the second nuclear power. The United States was startled at having lost their nuclear monopoly so soon. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became the first American civilians executed for espionage after having been convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union. RDS-1 The Soviet Union's first atomic bomb was comparable to America's Gadget and Fat Man…

@ProfFeynman: '"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple it is only because they do not realize how complicatedlifeis." -- John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) '