John Von Neumann papers, 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957).
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Mixed materialsLanguage: English, Hungarian Description: 11,660 items; 34 containers plus 1 vault container; 13.4 linear feetSubject(s): - 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
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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.
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Collection material in English and Hungarian.
Mathematician, atomic energy commissioner, and educator.
Collection material in English and Hungarian.
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