Von Neumann, John 1903-1957 creator mixed material monographic eng hun 11,660 34 1 13.4 Correspondence, memoranda, journals, speeches, article and book drafts, notes, charts, graphs, patent, biographical material, family papers, printed materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials pertaining primarily to Von Neumann's career as professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study including his directorship of the Electronic Computer Project; adviser and commissioner on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; scientific consultant to government and private concerns, including the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland; and author of works on ballistic research, computers, continuous geometries, logic, operator theory, quantum mechanics, and the theory of games. Includes evaluations of his work written after his death by colleagues including Herman Heine Goldstine, Paul R. Halmos, and Abraham Haskel Taub. Of special interest are an Albert Einstein letter and report on theoretical physics (1937). Also includes a small amount of material pertaining to Eva and Peter Aldor. Correspondents include Eva Aldor, Frank Aydelotte, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Garrett Birkhoff, S. Chandrasekhar, George Bernard Dantzig, P.A.M. Dirac, Carl Eckart, Enrico Fermi, Abraham Flexner, George Gamow, Kurt Gödel, Herman Heine Goldstine, Werner Heisenberg, L. van Hove, Cuthbert Corwin Hurd, Pascual Jordan, R. H. Kent, George B. Kistiakowsky, Oskar Morgenstern, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Rudolf Ortvay, Wolfgang Pauli, Marshall H. Stone, Lewis L. Strauss, Abraham Haskel Taub, Edward Teller, Stanislaw M. Ulam, Oswald Veblen, Klara Dan Von Neumann, Warren Weaver, Hermann Weyl, Norbert Wiener, and Eugene Paul Wigner. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Video recording transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Collection material in English and Hungarian. Mathematician, atomic energy commissioner, and educator. Collection material in English and Hungarian. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996003 Aldor, Eva Aldor, Eva Correspondence Aldor, Peter 1904-1976 Aydelotte, Frank 1880-1956 Correspondence Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht) 1906-2005 Correspondence Birkhoff, Garrett 1911-1996 Correspondence Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan) 1910-1995 Correspondence Dantzig, George B. (George Bernard) 1914-2001 Correspondence Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice) 1902-1984 Correspondence Eckart, Carl 1902-1973 Correspondence Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Correspondence Fermi, Enrico 1901-1954 Correspondence Flexner, Abraham 1866-1959 Correspondence Gamow, George 1904-1968 Correspondence Gödel, Kurt Correspondence Goldstine, Herman H. (Herman Heine) 1913-2004 Goldstine, Herman H. (Herman Heine) 1913-2004 Correspondence Halmos, Paul R. (Paul Richard) 1916-2006 Heisenberg, Werner 1901-1976 Correspondence Hove, L. van (Léon) Correspondence Hurd, Cuthbert Corwin 1911-1996 Correspondence Jordan, Pascual 1902-1980 Correspondence Kent, R. H. (Robert Harrington) 1886-1961 Correspondence Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan) 1900-1982 Correspondence Morgenstern, Oskar 1902-1977 Correspondence Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Correspondence Ortvay, Rudolf 1885-1945 Correspondence Pauli, Wolfgang 1900-1958 Correspondence Stone, Marshall H. (Marshall Harvey) 1903-1989 Correspondence Strauss, Lewis L Correspondence Taub, Abraham Haskel 1911- Taub, Abraham Haskel 1911- Correspondence Teller, Edward 1908-2003 Correspondence Ulam, Stanislaw M Correspondence Veblen, Oswald 1880-1960 Correspondence Von Neumann, Klara Dan Correspondence Weaver, Warren 1894-1978 Correspondence Weyl, Hermann 1885-1955 Correspondence Wiener, Norbert 1894-1964 Correspondence Wigner, Eugene Paul 1902-1995 Correspondence Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) Faculty Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Ballistics Computers Continuous geometries Game theory Logic, Symbolic and mathematical Mathematics Study and teaching Nuclear energy Nuclear energy Government policy United States Operator theory Physics Quantum theory Atomic energy commissioners Educators Mathematicians mm 82044180 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms996003 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms996003.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996003 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996003.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 821109 20260227111715.0 mm 82044180