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Neumann   /nˈumən/   Listen
Neumann

noun
1.
United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957).  Synonyms: John von Neumann, von Neumann.



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"Neumann" Quotes from Famous Books



... two electrical particles act on one another directly at a distance, but with a force which, according to Weber, depends on their relative velocity, and according to a theory hinted at by Gauss, and developed by Riemann, Lorenz, and Neumann, acts not instantaneously, but after a time depending on the distance. The power with which this theory, in the hands of these eminent men, explains every kind of electrical phenomena must be studied in ...
— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell
... Otto Neumann Sverdrup, commander of the Fram, was born in Bindal, in Helgeland, 1855. At the age of seventeen he went to sea, passed his mate's examination in 1878, and for some years was captain of a ship. In ...
— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen


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