In May, we lost after a long and full life of ninety years the economist Marina von Neumann Whitman. Among a host of accomplishments, von Neumann Whitman was the first to coin a name, in the mid-1970s ...

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John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

CHAMPAIGN – Alice Wyers von Neumann, after improving the lives of children through her career in social work, pursued a passion for world travel, experiencing the people and places which enriched her ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Northwestern Engineering’s Jorge Nocedal has been awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Nocedal, Walter P.