John von Neumann
John von Neumann
John von Neumannwas a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth28 December 1903
CountryUnited States of America
John von Neumann quotes about
numbers sin arithmetic
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.
algorithms physics mathematics
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.