John Von Neumann.: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More - Couverture rigide

Macrae, Norman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0821820648 ISBN 13 : 9780821820643

Editeur : American Mathematical Society, 1999

Synopsis

I always thought [von Neumann's] brain indicated that he belonged to a new species, an evolution beyond man. Macrae shows us in a lively way how this brain was nurtured and then left its great imprint on the world. -Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University The book makes for utterly captivating reading. Von Neumann was, of course, one of this century's geniuses, and it is surprising that we have had to wait so long... for a fully fleshed and sympathetic biography of the man. But now, happily, we have one. Macrae nicely delineates the cultural, familial, and educational environment from which von Neumann sprang and sketches the mathematical and scientific environment in which he flourished. It's no small task to render a genius like von Neumann in ordinary language, yet Macrae manages the trick, providing more than a glimpse of what von Neumann accomplished intellectually without expecting the reader to have a Ph.D. in mathematics. Beyond that, he captures von Neumann's qualities of temperament, mind, and personality, include myself, will find provocative and illuminating. -Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Technology A lively portrait of the hugely consequential mathematician-physicist-et al., whose genius has left an enduring impress on our thought, technology, society, and culture. A double salute to Steve White, who started this grand book designed for us avid, nonmathematical readers, and to Norman Macrae, who brought it to a triumphant conclusion. -Robert K. Merton, Columbia University

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born 1923. RAF navigator 1942-45. Went up to Cambridge 1945. Firstclass honors in economics tripos, 1947. Did research and some teaching in economics at Cambridge in 1947-49, but left before completing Ph. D. because was already getting stuff published and wanted to get married. Joined The Economist in 1949, and apart from sabbaticals to write eight books and do a little consultancy was there until retirement in 1988. Assistant editor after 1954, and deputy editor after 1965. Have written over three thousand articles, mostly anonymous ones in The Economist, but have also lectured on five continents and written for other magazines around the world. The books published in America were The Neurotic Trillionaire, then Americas Third Century (these were originally my two surveys on the United States in The Economist, but Harcourt Brace Jovanovich reprinted them in the United States as paperbacks), and The 2025 Report: A Future History of 1975-2025 (published in America by Macmillan in 1985). I was a co-author of General Sir John Hackett's two books on World War III, which sold over three million copies worldwide; I wrote the chapters starting and ending the war, while the generals and admirals wrote the chapters fighting it. Three surveys I have written on Japan, starting with one in 1962 which prophesied that they were the only country to have got economic policy right, have been published as books in Japan. In the Japanese emperor's birthday honors in 1988 I was given the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays. In the same retirement year I was made a Commander of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth's birthday honors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: American Mathematical Society
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0821820648
• ISBN 13: 9780821820643
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible