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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: 66. Chapters: John von Neumann, George Dantzig, Archibald Hill, Anthony Stafford Beer, Frank Yates, Thomas L. Saaty, Jacques Dreze, Hugh Everett III, Harold Hotelling, Suresh P. Sethi, Russell L. Ackoff, Frederick W. Lanchester, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, Peter Whittle, Alvin E. Roth, Conrad Hal Waddington, Claude Lemarechal, Maurice Kendall, Leonid Kantorovich, Alan Pritsker, David S. Alberts, Samuel Karlin, R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Abraham Wald, Jay Wright Forrester, Richard D. Gill, Warren Weaver, Robert E. Machol, C. West Churchman, George E. Kimball, Robert J. Vanderbei, Seymour Melman, Robert B. Wilson, Narendra Karmarkar, Richard M. Karp, John R. Isbell, Gerald L. Thompson, Thomas L. Magnanti, Soulaymane Kachani, Roger J-B Wets, Philip M. Morse, Henk G. Sol, David B. Weinberger, Donald John Roberts, Peter Hammer, Barry Richmond, Naum Z. Shor, Merrill M. Flood, Lee Schruben, Paul Torgersen, Alfred Blumstein, Charles F. Goodeve, Stephen Warshall, Michael Maltz, Arnold Allen, John Little, John Sterman, Dănuţ Marcu, Reuven Rubinstein, Alex Verrijn Stuart, Guillermo Owen, Pawel Wojciechowski, Ronald A. Howard, John C. Gittins, Bernard Koopman, Daniel Kleitman, Dan Grimaldi, Albert Percival Rowe, Yinyu Ye, Anna Nagurney, Peter C. Fishburn, Takeshi Utsumi, J. Michael Harrison, James B. Orlin, David Luenberger, David B. Hertz, Owen Wansbrough-Jones, Paul Gray, Robert J. Weber, Nimrod Megiddo, Henk Tijms, Herbert Sichel, William Gehrlein, Arthur Swersey, Stuart Dreyfus. 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, ...