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
math science men
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
religion complicated truth-is
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
math thinking achievement
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
elephants four fit
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
problem uncertain term
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
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.