The legacy of John von Neumann
James Glimm, John Impagliazzo, and Isadore Singer, editors.
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©1990.
vii, 334 págs. : ilustraciones ; 26 cm.
Serie: Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics ; v. 50
ISBN: 0821814877
"Proceedings of the Summer Research Institute ... held at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, May 29-June 4, 1988". Incluye fotografías de los participantes.
"Cosponsored by the American Mathematical Society and Hofstra University".
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 91e:00024
Contenido
- Marina V. N. Whitman, John von Neumann: a personal view
- Peter D. Lax, Remembering John von Neumann
- Françoise Ulam, Nonmathematical reminiscences about Johnny von Neumann
- Israel Halperin, The extraordinary inspiration of John von Neumann
- Nicholas Vonneuman, The philosophical legacy of John von Neumann, in the light of its inception and evolution in his formative years
- George W. Mackey, von Neumann and the early days of ergodic theory
- Donald S. Ornstein, von Neumann and ergodic theory
- Hillel Furstenberg, Nonconventional ergodic averages
- F. J. Murray, The rings of operators papers
- Richard V. Kadison, Operator algebras
- -an overview
- Alain Connes, Introduction à la géométrie non-commutative
- Huzihiro Araki, Some of the legacy of John von Neumann in physics: theory of measurement, quantum logic, and von Neumann algebras in physics
- Arthur Jaffe, Mathematics motivated by physics
- I. E. Segal, The mathematical implications of fundamental physical principles
- Herman H. Goldstine and John von Neumann, On the principles of large scale computing machines
- James Glimm, Scientific computing: von Neumann's vision, today's realities, and the promise of the future
- Zhen Su She, Eric Jackson and Steven A. Orszag, Intermittency of turbulence
- Enrico Clementi, Steven Chin, Gina Corongiu, James Given, George C. Lie, Michele Migliore and Piero Procacci, Supercomputer simulations of the interaction of biomolecules in solution
- Jack D. Cowan, von Neumann and neural networks
- Elwyn Berlekamp, Two-person, perfect-information games
- William Aspray, The origins of John von Neumann's theory of automata
- Nicholas Pippenger, Developments in "The synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components"