John Von Neumann papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11660
Subjects: Correspondence; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; Symbolic and mathematical Logic; U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory; Operator theory; Computers; Nuclear energy; Ballistics; Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.); Study and teaching; Continuous geometries; Faculty; Quantum theory; Mathematics; Physics; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Game theory; Government policy
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, journals, speeches, article and book drafts, notes, charts, graphs, patent, biographical material, family papers, printed materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials pertaining primarily to Von Neumann's career as professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study including his directorship of the Electronic Computer Project; adviser and commissioner on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; scientific consultant to government and private concerns, including the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland; and author of works on ballistic research, computers, continuous geometries, logic, operator theory, quantum mechanics, and the theory of games.  Includes evaluations of his work written after his death by colleagues including Herman Heine Goldstine, Paul R. Halmos, and Abraham Haskel Taub.  Of special interest are an Albert Einstein letter and report on theoretical physics (1937).  Also includes a small amount of material pertaining to Eva and Peter Aldor.

Correspondents include Eva Aldor, Frank Aydelotte, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Garrett Birkhoff, S. Chandrasekhar, George Bernard Dantzig, P.A.M. Dirac, Carl Eckart, Enrico Fermi, Abraham Flexner, George Gamow, Kurt Gödel, Herman Heine Goldstine, Werner Heisenberg, L. van Hove, Cuthbert Corwin Hurd, Pascual Jordan, R. H. Kent, George B. Kistiakowsky, Oskar Morgenstern, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Rudolf Ortvay, Wolfgang Pauli, Marshall H. Stone, Lewis L. Strauss, Abraham Haskel Taub, Edward Teller, Stanislaw M. Ulam, Oswald Veblen, Klara Dan Von Neumann, Warren Weaver, Hermann Weyl, Norbert Wiener, and Eugene Paul Wigner.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Gift, Marina Von Neumann Whitman, 1974-1975.

Gift, Nicholas A. Vonneuman, 1993.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Mathematician, atomic energy commissioner, and educator.

Collection material in English and Hungarian.

Collection material in English and Hungarian.

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