baumhaus.digital/Studium Generale/Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale/Session 9 :: Epoch/Von Neumann
Johnny von Neumann (28.12.1903 - 8.2.1957)
- "the last representative of the great mathematicians"
- statistics, stochastic computing, quantum mechanics, game theory, computing (merge sort algorithm, von Neumann architecture), self-replicating machines (von Neumann probes) etc.
- Manhattan project, Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)