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The Legacy of John von Neumann
About this Title
James Glimm, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, John Impagliazzo, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY and Isadore Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Editors
Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Publication Year:
1990; Volume 50
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1487-1 (print); 978-0-8218-9346-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/050
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Front/Back Matter
Articles
- Marina v. N. Whitman – John von Neumann: A personal view [MR 1067744]
- Peter D. Lax – Remembering John von Neumann [MR 1067745]
- Françoise Ulam – Nonmathematical reminiscences about Johnny von Neumann [MR 1067746]
- Israel Halperin – The extraordinary inspiration of John von Neumann [MR 1067747]
- Nicholas Vonneuman – The philosophical legacy of John von Neumann, in the light of its inception and evolution in his formative years [MR 1067748]
- George W. Mackey – von Neumann and the early days of ergodic theory [MR 1067749]
- Donald S. Ornstein – von Neumann and ergodic theory [MR 1067750]
- Hillel Furstenberg – Nonconventional ergodic averages [MR 1067751]
- F. J. Murray – The rings of operators papers [MR 1067752]
- Richard V. Kadison – Operator algebras—an overview [MR 1067753]
- Alain Connes – Introduction à la géométrie non-commutative [MR 1067754]
- Huzihiro Araki – Some of the legacy of John von Neumann in physics: Theory of measurement, quantum logic, and von Neumann algebras in physics [MR 1067755]
- Arthur Jaffe – Mathematics motivated by physics [MR 1067756]
- I. E. Segal – The mathematical implications of fundamental physical principles [MR 1067757]
- Herman H. Goldstine and John von Neumann – On the principles of large scale computing machines [MR 1067758]
- James Glimm – Scientific computing: von Neumann’s vision, today’s realities, and the promise of the future [MR 1067759]
- Zhen-Su She, Eric Jackson and Steven A. Orszag – Intermittency of turbulence [MR 1067760]
- E. Clementi, S. Chin, G Corongiu, J. Given, G. C Lie, M. Migliore and P. Procaci – Supercomputer simulations of the interaction of biomolecules in solution
- Jack D. Cowan – von Neumann and neural networks [MR 1067761]
- Elwyn Berlekamp – Two-person, perfect-information games [MR 1067762]
- William Aspray – The origins of John von Neumann’s theory of automata [MR 1067763]
- Nicholas Pippenger – Developments in “The synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components” [MR 1067764]