Most anecdotes about von Neumann abide by this three-act structure: a question that baffles the best minds; their sweaty, pointless deliberations; von Neumann’s swift, soaring leap to the solution.

Unlike his much more famous colleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. As a ...

Indiscriminately applied these days to everything from Elon Musk to tips for cooking chicken in your dishwasher, the word “genius” has arguably lost whatever meaning it might have had. But if anyone ...

In his new book, Ananyo Bhattacharya writes about John von Neumann, who played an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics, computing and the atom bomb. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...

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.

I was delighted to read Stephen Budiansky’s review of my book “The Man from the Future” (Feb. 26), an intellectual biography of the Hungarian-American mathematical genius John von Neumann. I am ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the key figures behind this world-shattering event was the mathematician and physicist John ...

Future historians of Texas might well puzzle over events now unfolding in our state. The fourth wave of the pandemic, whipped into a frenzy by the Delta variant, has crashed over Texans, filling ...