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Jul 16, 2021
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LOT 560:
VON NEUMANN JOHN: (1903-1957) Hungarian-American Mathematician, Physicist & Computer Scientist, a me
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VON NEUMANN JOHN: (1903-1957) Hungarian-American Mathematician, Physicist & Computer Scientist, a me
VON NEUMANN JOHN: (1903-1957) Hungarian-American Mathematician, Physicist & Computer Scientist, a member of the Manhattan Project during World War II. A rare typed D.S., John von Neumann, one page, 4to, n.p., April 1953. Von Neumann responds to a researcher's questionnaire in homage to Albert Einstein, with their questions at the head of the page, 1. What kind of a place do you assign to Einstein in modern science? 2. What sort of an influence has he exerted upon your work? Or, what do you owe to him? 3. What kind of a place does he occupy in the history of world science? Von Neumann's answers appear immediately beneath, '1. and 3. are hard to answer in objective terms, but I would certainly place Einstein with Newton and Maxwell. As to 2., the methodological significance of each one of Einstein's main discoveries - light quantum theory, special relativity and general relativity - has been very great for everybody who has worked in theoretical physics or in the border area between mathematics and the physical sciences during the last forty years
.'. A few very light, minor creases, VG
