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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: 62. Chapters: John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Andrey Kolmogorov, Norbert Wiener, Ronald Fisher, Francis Galton, Robert Brown, Erol Gelenbe, Herman Wold, Derek Abbott, Jan H. van Schuppen, Klaus Hasselmann, John Muth, H. Eugene Stanley, M. S. Bartlett, Dimitri Bertsekas, Joseph Leo Doob, William Feller, Lloyd Shapley, Paul Tseng, Vaclav E. Benes, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, George E. P. Box, Adi Bulsara, Pat Moran, Alexander van Oudenaarden, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, J. M. R. Parrondo, Leonard Ornstein, Bart Kosko, Elliott Waters Montroll, Charles E. M. Pearce, Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Neil Shephard, Lajos Takacs, Kiyoshi Itō, Damiano Brigo, Michel Talagrand, Richard Arnold Epstein, Fabio Mercurio, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Michael F. Shlesinger, Luca Gammaitoni, Mark D. McDonnell, David Williams, Bernard Hanzon, Nigel G. Stocks, Laszlo B. Kish, Neil F. Johnson, Hans Frauenfelder, Thomas M. Cover, Charles R. Doering, Michel Loeve, Mark Kac, Daniel Gillespie, Paul Pierre Levy, Dietrich Stoyan, Albert Shiryaev, Sergey M. Bezrukov, Peter V. E. McClintock, Cosma Shalizi, Bernt Oksendal, Jan Sladkowski, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Martin Hairer, Hans Christian von Baeyer, Kurt Wiesenfeld, Hermann Haken, Edward W. Piotrowski, Kari Karhunen, Sidney Redner. 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...
