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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: 41. Chapters: John von Neumann, Alexander Grothendieck, Henri Lebesgue, Israel Gelfand, Per Enflo, Tasneem M. Shah, Svante Janson, Peter Orno, Leonid Kantorovich, Samuel Karlin, Robert Phelps, Abraham Wald, Maurice Rene Frechet, Igor Kluvanek, Paul Halmos, Vito Volterra, John Rainwater, Errett Bishop, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Stanis aw Saks, Antoni Zygmund, Jean Bourgain, Mark Krein, Frigyes Riesz, Walter Rudin, Naum Akhiezer, Stanis aw Mazur, Boris Mordukhovich, Marcel Riesz, Joram Lindenstrauss, Nassif Ghoussoub, Alexander Ostrowski, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Robert G. Bartle, Ivar Ekeland, Harold S. Shapiro, Richard Friederich Arens, Charles Read, K saku Yosida, David Preiss. 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 mechanics, in the development of functional analysis, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few original...
