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Science, Computers, and People

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Applicability of Mathematics
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    Chapter 2 Physics for Mathematicians
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    Chapter 3 Ideas of Space and Space-Time
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    Chapter 4 Philosophical Implications of Some Recent Scientific Discoveries
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    Chapter 5 A First Look at Computing: A Personal Retrospective
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    Chapter 6 Computers in Mathematics
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    Chapter 7 Experiments in Chess on Electronic Computing Machines: Some Early Efforts
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    Chapter 8 Computations in Parallel
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    Chapter 9 Patterns of Growth of Figures
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    Chapter 10 More on Patterns of Growth
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    Chapter 11 How to Formulate Mathematically the Problems of the Rate of Evolution
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    Chapter 12 Some Further Ideas and Prospects in Biomathematics
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    Chapter 13 Further Applications of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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    Chapter 14 Thermonuclear Devices
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    Chapter 15 The Orion Project
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    Chapter 16 John von Neumann 1903–1957
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    Chapter 17 Von Neumann: The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing
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    Chapter 18 John von Neumann on Computers and the Brain
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    Chapter 19 Gamow and Mathematics: Personal Reminiscences
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    Chapter 20 Marian Smoluchowski and the Theory of Probabilities in Physics
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    Chapter 21 Kazimierz Kuratowski
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    Chapter 22 Stefan Banach
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    Chapter 23 A Concluding Paean
Attention for Chapter 16: John von Neumann 1903–1957
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Chapter title
John von Neumann 1903–1957
Chapter number 16
Book title
Science, Computers, and People
Published by
Birkhäuser Boston, January 1986
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-9819-0_16
Book ISBNs
978-0-8176-3276-2, 978-1-4615-9819-0
Authors

Stanislaw M. Ulam

Editors

Mark C. Reynolds, Gian-Carlo Rota

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