David Meyer on Nostr: Born #onthisday in 1903, John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American child prodigy, ...

Born #onthisday in 1903, John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American child prodigy, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. He was a pioneer in building the mathematical framework of quantum physics, in the development of functional analysis, and in game theory, introducing or codifying concepts including cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Sadly, von Neumann died on February 8, 1957 at the age of 53.

[Image credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann]

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[1] "John von Neumann: Life, Work, and Legacy", https://www.ias.edu/von-neumann
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