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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: John von Neumann, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, Joseph Petzval, David Schwarz, Philipp Lenard, Anyos Jedlik, Theodore von Karman, Dennis Gabor, Kalman Tihanyi, Mate Hidvegi, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Peter Carl Goldmark, Laszlo Biro, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Franz Gebauer, Zoltan Lajos Bay, David Gestetner, Ern Rubik, Csaba Horvath, Oszkar Asboth, Egon Orowan, Bela Barenyi, Farkas Bolyai, Otto Blathy, Jozsef Galamb, Albert Fono, Ferenc Anisits, Orban, Gyula Takatsy, Kovats retention index, Pal Selenyi, Janos Csonka, Emanuel Moor, Imre Brody, Maria Telkes, Gyorgy Jendrassik, Francesco Illy, Karoly Zipernowsky, Jozsef Karoly Hell, Nandor Balazs, Denes Mihaly, Laszlo Heller, Donat Banki, Miksa Deri, Paul von Janko, Gyorgy Szigeti, Ern Winter, Tivadar Millner, Janos Irinyi, George Clifford Sziklai, Pal Kiraly, Rudolf Frommer, Aleksandar Just. Excerpt: John von Neumann (English pronunciation: ) (December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to many fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics, and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history. The mathematician Jean Dieudonne called von Neumann "the last of the great mathematicians," while Peter Lax described him as possessing the most "fearsome technical prowess" and "scintillating intellect" of the century. Even in Budapest, in the time that produced geniuses like Theodore von Karman (b. 1881), Leo Szilard (b. 1898), Eugene Wigner (b. 1902), and Edward Teller (b. 1908), his brilliance stood out. Von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mech...
