JOHN VON NUEMANN

ORIGIN & BACKGROUND

• Born dec 28, 1903
• Budapest Hungary.
• Grew up in Jewish family
• Mother and father.
• 2 siblings
• Hungary did not have school until child was 10
• Was taught privately

ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND

• Governesses taught Von
• Neumann learned English, French, German, and Italian.
• Knew differential and integral calculus
• Attended the Lutheran Fasori Evangelikus Gymnasium
• Attended two year non degree course in chemistry
• Entered pazmany Peter university .
• Went to the University of Gottingen

WORK

• Finished school on December 13, 1927
• Started his lectures as a privatdozent.
• Started this at the university of Berlin
• Briefly became an privatdozent at the university of Hamburg
• Was offered a lifetime professorship. Remained a mathematics professor here until his death.

IMPORTANT QUOTES

• "There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."

INVOLVEMENT WITH OTHERS

• Did most work alone.
• Albert Einstein lived in the same time period
• Marie curie also lived during this time

EVENTS

• Sigmund Freuds theories
• Max Planck's quantum theory.
• & jonas salks invention of the vaccine