Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. As a ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the key figures behind this world-shattering event was the mathematician and physicist John ...

Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, ...

In his new book, Ananyo Bhattacharya writes about John von Neumann, who played an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics, computing and the atom bomb. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...

In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating robots. Von Neumann’s ...

When I was in high school, I wanted to be Jake Long. Not Albert Einstein, the genius behind the general theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc^2, or John Von Neumann, ...

The modern computer may have begun with a random meeting at a train station in 1944. When mathematician Herman Goldstine told John von Neumann about ENIAC, von Neumann immediately saw both its power ...