"The Jewish genius mathematician John von Neumann is the mastermind behind today's computers. Essentially, he attached a CPU mimicking the human brain to a 'dumb calculator.' The first stored-program ...

In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating robots. Von Neumann’s ...

Most anecdotes about von Neumann abide by this three-act structure: a question that baffles the best minds; their sweaty, pointless deliberations; von Neumann’s swift, soaring leap to the solution.

Analysis suggests that the two pioneers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr and John von Neumann, may have had more similar views than previously thought regarding the nature of quantum systems, and the ...

Indiscriminately applied these days to everything from Elon Musk to tips for cooking chicken in your dishwasher, the word “genius” has arguably lost whatever meaning it might have had. But if anyone ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...

Using the Zermelo and von Neumann set-theoretic construction models, as well as the perspective of 'Two Opposite Ideas' (the ...

I was delighted to read Stephen Budiansky’s review of my book “The Man from the Future” (Feb. 26), an intellectual biography of the Hungarian-American mathematical genius John von Neumann. I am ...