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List of scientific publications by John von Neumann

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John von Neumann (1903–1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. He was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics in the development of functional analysis, the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Books authored / coauthored

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Scholarly articles

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  • 1947. The Mathematician, The Works of the Mind. ed. by R. B. Heywood, University of Chicago Press, 180–196.
  • 1951. The Future of High-Speed Computing, Digest of an address at the IBM Seminar on Scientific Computation, November 1949, Proc. Comp. Sem., IBM, 13.
  • 1954. The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society. Address at 4th Conference of Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, June, 16–29.
  • 1954. The NORC and Problems in High Speed Computing, Address on the occasion of the first public showing of the IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator, December 2.
  • 1955. Method in the Physical Sciences, The Unity of Knowledge, ed. by L. Leary, Doubleday, 157–164.
  • 1955. Can We Survive Technology? Fortune, June.
  • 1955. Impact of Atomic Energy on the Physical and Chemical Sciences, Speech at M.I.T. Alumni Day Symposium, June 13, Summary, Tech. Rev. 15–17.
  • 1955. Defense in Atomic War, Paper delivered at a symposium in honor of Dr. R. H. Kent, December 7, 1955, The Scientific Bases of Weapons, Journ. Am. Ordnance Assoc., 21–23.
  • 1956. The Impact of Recent Developments in Science on the Economy and on Economics, Partial text of a talk at the National Planning Assoc., Washington, D.C., December 12, 1955, Looking Ahead, 4:11.

Collected works

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Von Neumann's collected works were published as a six-volume set, edited by Abraham H. Taub and printed by Pergamon Press.

  • 1961. Volume I: Logic, Theory of Sets and Quantum Mechanics
  • 1961. Volume II: Operators, Ergodic Theory and Almost Periodic Functions in a Group
  • 1961. Volume III: Rings of Operators
  • 1962. Volume IV: Continuous Geometry and other topics
  • 1963. Volume V: Design of Computers, Theory of Automata and Numerical Analysis
  • 1963. Volume VI: Theory of Games, Astrophysics, Hydrodynamics and Meteorology
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Collections of von Neumann's published works can be found on zbMATH and Google Scholar. A list of his known works as of 1995 can be found in The Neumann Compendium.