Question: What was Von Neumann's mother's name?
Answer: Kann Margit

Question: In what year was Von Neumann's father elevated to nobility?
Answer: 1913

Question: What Emperor elevated Von Neumann's father to nobility?
Answer: Emperor Franz Joseph

Question: What town did Von Neumann's family become associated when elevated to nobility?
Answer: Marghita

Question: What was Von Neumann's given name as member of Austro-Hungarian nobility?
Answer: Margittai Neumann János

Question: At what age did schooling begin in Hungary?
Answer: ten

Question: Who taught children before they began school in Hungary?
Answer: governesses

Question: What languages were Von Neumann and his siblings taught?
Answer: English, French, German and Italian

Question: At what age was Von Neumann familiar with calculus?
Answer: 8

Question: What did Von Neumann enter in 1911?
Answer: Lutheran Fasori Evangelikus Gimnázium

Question: In what room did children get education in Hungary?
Answer: gymnasium

Question: What collective name was given to the generation of scholars produced by the Hungarian school system?
Answer: Martians

Question: In what year did Wigner win Nobel Prize?
Answer: 1963

Question: At what age did Von Neumann begin to study advance calculus?
Answer: 15

Question: Who did Von Neumann begin his studies of advanced calculus under?
Answer: Gábor Szegő

Question: By 19 how many papers had Von Neumann published?
Answer: two major mathematical papers

Question: Von Neumann's modern definition of ordinal numbers superseded whose definition?
Answer: Georg Cantor

Question: What prize did Von Neuman win at the conclusion of his gymansium formal education?
Answer: Eötvös Prize, a national prize for mathematics

Question: What career path was decided upon for Von Neuman?
Answer: chemical engineer

Question: At what university was it arranged for Von Neumann to enter a chemistry program?
Answer: University of Berlin

Question: Where did Von Neumann study as a PHD candidate?
Answer: Pázmány Péter University in Budapest

Question: What was the topic of Von Neuman's thesis?
Answer: axiomatization of Cantor's set theory

Question: Where did Von Neumann begin to lecture in 1928?
Answer: University of Berlin

Question: By the end of 1927 how many papers had Von Neuman written?
Answer: twelve major papers in mathematics

Question: How many papers had Von Neumann written by 1929?
Answer: thirty-two papers

Question: What better offer came for Von Neumann in 1930?
Answer: Princeton University

Question: When did Von Neumann get married?
Answer: New Year's Day in 1930

Question: What was Von Neumann's wife's name?
Answer: Mariette Kövesi

Question: Before marriage what faith did Von Neumann join?
Answer: he was baptized a Catholic.

Question: What was Von Neumann's child's name?
Answer: Marina

Question: When did Von Neumann get married for a second time?
Answer: October 1938

Question: In what year was Von Neumann offered a lifetime professorship? 
Answer: 1933

Question: In what year did Von Neumann's mother and siblings join him in U.S?
Answer: 1939

Question: In what year did Von Neumann become a naturalized citizen of US?
Answer: 1937

Question: Why was Neuman rejected from joining US Army?
Answer: age

Question: What type of "off color" humor did Von Neumann especially enjoy?
Answer: limericks

Question: What complaints did Von Neumann's neighbor's have?
Answer: regularly playing extremely loud German march music

Question: What famous neighbor did Von Neumann have that may have been distracted by the music Von Neumann played?
Answer: Albert Einstein,

Question: What mathematician was Von Nemann's closest friend?
Answer: Stanislaw Ulam

Question: What topics of conversation would Ulam and Von Neumann typically share?
Answer: gossiping and giggling, swapping Jewish jokes, and drifting in and out of mathematical talk

Question: What would Ulam use to cheer up Von Neumann in the hospital?
Answer: a new collection of jokes

Question: What caused a setback in naive set theory at the beginning of 20th century?
Answer: Russell's paradox

Question: Who resolved the problem of adequate axiomatization of set theory?
Answer: Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel

Question: What 2 techniques did Von Neumann use to exclude sets in his doctoral thesis in 1925?
Answer: the axiom of foundation and the notion of class.

Question: What is the method to demonstrate that no contradictions were created by the addition of axiom of foundation?
Answer: method of inner models

Question: Zermelo and Fraenkel's axiom of foundation established that every set be constructed how?
Answer: from the bottom up in an ordered succession of steps

Question: What excluded a set from belonging to itself in set theory?
Answer: if one set belongs to another then the first must necessarily come before the second in the succession

Question: What is a proper class?
Answer: a class which does not belong to other classes

Question: Under what approach does an axiom impede a set of all sets which do not belong to themselves?
Answer: Zermelo–Fraenkel

Question: Under Von Neumann's approach can a class of all sets that do not belong to themselves be constructed?
Answer: class of all sets which do not belong to themselves can be constructed, but it is a proper class and not a set.

Question: In 1930 who gave a strongly negative answer to Von Neuman's approach to the axiomatic system of theory of sets?
Answer: Kurt Gödel

Question: What was the central theme of Godel's announcement that the axiomatic system was not complete?
Answer: they cannot prove every truth which is expressible in their language

Question: Where was Godel's statement about axiomatic system made in 1930?
Answer: Congress of Königsberg

Question: How long did it take von Neumann to figure a response to theory of incompleteness?
Answer: less than a month

Question: What was the consequence of the theory of incompleteness?
Answer: usual axiomatic systems are unable to demonstrate their own consistency

Question: Upon revising the theory of incompleteness, what was the name of the new Godel theory?
Answer: second incompleteness theorem

Question: What field did Von Neuman establish?
Answer: continuous geometry.

Question: What is the distinction of continuous geometry?
Answer: instead of the dimension of a subspace being in a discrete set 0, 1, ..., n, it can be an element of the unit interval

Question: What was the first example of continuous geometry?
Answer: projections of the hyperfinite type II factor

Question: In what way did von Neumann make spectacular contributions to measure theory?
Answer: In a series of famous papers

Question: What concept was relevant to the solvability of the problem of measure?
Answer: algebraic concept of solvability of a group is relevant

Question: According to von Neumann what is the most important part of the problem of measure?
Answer: change of group that makes a difference, not the change of space

Question: What is often considered more important than the results of von Neumann's papers?
Answer: methods of argument he employed

Question: In 1938 what was von Neumann awarded?
Answer: Bôcher Memorial Prize

Question: What did von Neumann use the Haar theorem to solve in a 1936 paper?
Answer: Hilbert's fifth problem in the case of compact groups

Question: What is von Neumann algebra?
Answer: algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology and contains the identity operator

Question: What does the von Neumann bicommutant theorem show?
Answer: the analytic definition is equivalent to a purely algebraic definition as an algebra of symmetries.

Question: When was direct integral introduced by von Neumann?
Answer: 1949

Question: What was introduced in von Neumann algebras?
Answer: study of rings of operators

Question: What did von Neumann work on in 1937 - 39?
Answer: lattice theory