Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the likes of Werner Heisenberg and John von Neumann – but whose contributions to ...

Hungarian-born John von Neumann (1903-1957), an internationally renowned mathematician, promoted a theoretical design for a computer in the 1940s. He envisioned the stored program concept ...

John von Neumann, one of the most incredible Hungarian-born scientists of all time, was named Man of the Century by the Financial Times in 1999. Among other scientific works, Neumann pioneered ...

This brings to mind the curves of famous mathematician John von Neumann who noted: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk”. Trump managed to ...

Recognizing Excellence in Applied Mathematics The John von Neumann Prize, established in 1959, is SIAM’s highest honor. Named after John von Neumann, one of the foundations of modern computing ...

About 96 years ago, physicists John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner proposed a strange wave behavior that is bewildering scientists even today. They named it bound state in the continuum (BIC).

Northwestern Engineering’s Jorge Nocedal has been awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Nocedal, Walter P.