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John von Neumann Fecha de primera versión: 29-03-00 Fecha de última actualización: 29-03-00 Nació: 28 de diciembre de 1903 en Budapest (Hungría) Murió: 8 de febrero de 1957 en Washington (EEUU). Su padre, Max Neumann, era una banquero judío y su madre la hija de un rico comerciante. Max Neumann compró un título nobiliario (por aquella época, la nobleza estaba mejor considerada que la riqueza), aunque él nunca lo utilizó, pero sí su hijo John. Esta es la razón del 'von' que acompaña al nombre. John, fue el mayor de tres hermanos. Ya de pequeño asombraba a todos por su memoria; dicen que leía una columna de la guía telefónica varias veces y era capaz de responder a las preguntas que le hiciesen de nombres, domicilios o teléfono. Cuando entró en el colegio su profesor se dio cuenta que era un genio (por cierto en el mismo colegio también estaba Eugene Wigner, que fue intimo amigo de Neumann el resto de su vida. Wigner se dedicó a la Física, porque, según dijo, 'después de conocer a Neumann me di cuenta de la diferencia que había entre un matemático de primera y yo'. Aunque la orientación de Neumann hacia las matemáticas estaba clara su padre le influyó para que estudiase Química. Comenzó la carrera en la Universidad de Berlín y la finalizó en Zurich. Uno de sus profesores (Georg Pólya) en Zurich dijo que 'era el único estudiante al que temía. Si durante una lección hablaba de un problema no resuelto, la probabilidad de que Neumann se presentase al final de la clase con la solución en un papel, era alta.' Finalizó sus estudios de Química, en 1926.

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John von Neumann He was born in Hungary, studied in Germany, and after 1930, mainly worked in the United States. In every branch of science he stepped in, he left outstanding results: mathematics, mathematical logic, quantum mechanics, design of computer, the theory of automata, and the theory of games. He was also deeply involved in US military policy as an advisor. The swiftness of his mind (or the CPU of his brain) is legendary. Whether true or not, it is said that his calculation was faster than any computer of his day. During and after the war, he was involved both in the development of nuclear weapons and of computers. He annoyed Oppenheimer (then the Director of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) by bringing in the project of manufacturing IAS computer, against the policy of the Institute. He was also known as a reckless driver. Despite some (moral, say) misgivings, his contributions to science and technology are immense; and it seems quite silly ("legitimate" in some sense, though) to denouce this type of scientist on moral, social, or political (or whatever) grounds; everything considered, the balance is undeniably on the positive (good) side. BACK TO VON NEUMANN PICTURE Last modified May 13, 2003. (c) Soshichi Uchii

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About John von Neumann John von Neumann was born in Budapest Hungary on December 28th, 1903. Von Neumann's genius showed through early on in his childhood. At the age of six he was already showing an interest in math and was able to exchange jokes with his father in classical Greek. By the age of eight he became fascinated with history and read all forty-four volumes of the universal history, which resided in the family’s library. John von Neumann received his early education at the Lutheran Gymnasium under the tutelage of Michael Fekete with whom he published his first paper at the age of eighteen. Von Neumann studied chemistry at the University of Berlin, until 1923 when he went to Technische Hochschule in Zurich where he received his diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1925. Von Neumann subsequently received his doctoral degree in Mathematics in 1928 from the University of Budapest at the age of twenty-two. His dissertation topic was set theory. Near the end of 1929, von Neumann was offered a visiting lectureship on quantum theory at Princeton University and by 1931 he was appointed full-time professor. In 1933 he was asked to be one of the original six Professors of Mathematics at the newly founded Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. He retained this position for the rest of his life.

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The Work of John von Neumann (1903-1957) In his all-too-brief career, mathematician John von Neumann, one of the greatest polymaths of all time, managed to have profound impact on mathematics, quantum theory, economics, computer science, neurology, and other fields. Over time, as he moved through different disciplines, his work "moved in the general direction of the post-war scientific disciplines, which had a decreased emphasis on motion, force, energy, and power and an increased emphasis on communication, organization, programming and control." The theme of self-reference in systems runs through much of von Neumann's work; early on, von Neumann and other mathematicians tried to eliminate self-reference and the contradictions it seemed to cause in set theory. Self-reference was a key element in many of von Neumann's later contributions as well, from his treatment of the apparent regresses of game theory to the self-reproduction of organisms. Born in Budapest in 1903, von Neumann was the oldest son of a successful Jewish banker. He received an exceptional formal and informal education; family connections exposed him to many of Hungary's intellectual luminaries of the period, and the Lutheran Gymnasium (one of Hungary's best secondary schools) provided him with a university tutor to nurture his mathematical gifts. He enrolled at both the University of Budapest and the University of Berlin in 1921. From 1923 to 1925 von Neumann studied chemical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, earning a degree in 1925, and the following year he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Budapest. He became the youngest

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John von Neumann's Universal Constructor Umberto Pesavento and Renato Nobili implemented von Neumann's designs for a universal computer plus universal constructor, embedded in a cellular automata (CA) space. Umberto and Renato made these files available from ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/cellular-automata/jvn jvn.readme jvn_demo.zip jvn_dos.zip ... jvn_unix_01.tar.gz The work was described in: Pesavento, U. (1995), An implementation of von Neumann's self-reproducing machine. Artificial Life 2(4), 337-354. I've made a Windows version of the code which is available here as exe (184k) or C++ source (MSVC6) (94k) . [New 10/11/2003: Can run slowly to watch what's going on, and zoom in and out.] Let me know if you have any problems with this version, the exe should run on most Windows machines. There are some pictures from this implementation below. Email me if you have any questions about this page: T.Hutton@eastman.ucl.ac.uk Below is a little animated gif of the operation of the constructor, making a copy of a tape and also executing the tape to construct a little loop. Below is another image of the machine with the tape needed to copy itself. The memory is wrapped-around horizontally (and dropped-down a few squares) in order that the long tape doesn't overwrite itself.

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von Neumann, John (1903 - 1957) ungersk matematiker, verksam i USA sedan 1930. John von Neumann var en av de viktigaste teoretikerna bakom den moderna datatekniken och har gett namn åt von Neumann-arkitekturen . Han formulerade också teorier om cellautomater och självreplikerande maskiner - en parallell till upptäckten av dna. John von Neumann räknas också, tillsammans med Oscar Morgenstern som den viktigaste teoretikern bakom spelteorin . Spelteorin användes i USA som ett verktyg för strategisk analys under det kalla kriget, och John von Neumann var med i den amerikanska atomenergikommissionen som ledde utvecklingen av USAs kärnvapenarsenal. De sista åren kom han till mötena i rullstol. Han och Henry Kissinger var förebilderna till Peter Sellers rollfigur Dr Strangelove.

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Search MAA Online MAA Home Devlin's Angle December 2003 John von Neumann: The Father of the Modern Computer Later this month (28th December) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of John von Neumann, the Hungarian born American mathematician who, among his many accomplishments, was the originator of the basic principle of computer design known as the "von Neumann architecture." Von Neumann computers are the ancestors of today's desktop and laptop PCs. The principal feature of a von Neumann computer is that the program and any data are both stored together, usually in a slow-to-access storage medium such as a hard disk, and transferred as required to a faster, and more volatile storage medium (RAM) for execution or processing by a central processing unit (CPU). Since this how practically all present day computers work, the term "von Neumann architecture" is rarely used now, but it was in common parlance in the computing profession through to the early 1970s. When von Neumann proposed this architecture in 1945, it was a radical idea. Prior to then, programs were viewed as essentially part of the machine, and hence different from the data the machine operated on. A common approach was to input the program by some physical means, such as wiring a plugboard, and then feeding in the data for the program to act upon. In 1945, in his first draft of a report on the EDVAC [a planned successor machine to the ENIAC, one of the first American computers], von Neumann proposed the stored program concept. The idea grew out of discussions he had with several other computer pioneers, among them J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Arthur Burks, and Hermann Goldstine, who were working on plans for the EDVAC. What was to become known as the von Neumann architecture was subsequently spelled out more fully in a 1946 paper, written by von Neumann, Burks and Goldstine, titled "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument."

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