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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Von Neumann, Edward Norton Lorenz, Bert Bolin, Susan Solomon, Syukuro Manabe, Jerry D. Mahlman, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Hsiao-Lan Kuo, Jerome Namias, Jacob Bjerknes, Harry Wexler, Verner E. Suomi, Jule Gregory Charney, Erik Palmén, Hurd Curtis Willett, Arnt Eliassen. Excerpt:Arnt Eliassen (9 December 1915 22 April 2000) was a Norwegian meteorologist who was a pioneer in the use of numerical analysis and computers for weather forecasting . The early pioneer work was done at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey , together with John von Neumann . His areas of research included free and thermally driven circulations, frontogenesis , and shear and gravitational acoustic wave propagation in stratified media. Eliassen received the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal in 1964 for his many important contributions to dynamical meteorology. He received the very prestigious Balzan Prize in 1996 "For his fundamental contributions to dynamic meteorology that have influenced and stimulated progress in this science during the past fifty years". His is the father of the meteorologist Anton _Eliassen. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (Swedish pronunciation: ; 15 March 1925 30 December 2007) was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 to 1997. He was professor of meteorology at Stockholm University from 1961 until his retirement in 1990. Background Bolin was born in Nyköping, Sweden and graduated from Uppsala University in 1946. He earned a master s degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1956, both in meteorology, at Stockholm University . During his doctorate he spent a year in 1950 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New... ... Read more

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Chapters: Alan Turing, John Von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Seymour Cray, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Butler Lampson, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steve Jobs, Alan Kotok, Bernard Marshall Gordon, W. Daniel Hillis, Maurice Wilkes, Donald B. Gillies, Gordon Bell, William Goddard, Peter Samson, John L. Hennessy, Steve Furber, David Patterson, Charles P. Thacker, Stan Frankel, John Pinkerton, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Daniel Kottke, David May, Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev, John Cocke, Boris Babaian, Justin Rattner, Harry Huskey, Masatoshi Shima, James R. Goodman, Mark Carlson, John Fairclough, Steve Chen, Bob Colwell, Robert J. Mical, Michael Dhuey, Robert Brunner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 239. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which lead to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. In 1986, he acquire...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7412236 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Von Neumann. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 293. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history. The mathematician Jean Dieudonné called von Neumann "the last of the great mathematicians", while Peter Lax described him as possessing the most "fearsome technical prowess" and "scintillating intellect" of the century. Even in Budapest, in the time that produced geniuses like von Kármán (b. 1881), Szilárd (b. 1898), Wigner (b. 1902), and Teller (b. 1908), his brilliance stood out. Von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, in the development of functional analysis, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed), and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata and the universal constructor. Along with Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb. The eldest of three brothers, von Neumann was born Neumann János Lajos (in Hungarian the family name comes first) on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a wealthy Jewish family. His father was Neumann Miksa (Max Neumann), a lawyer who worked in a bank. His mother was Kann Mar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15942 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : John Von Neumann, János Bolyai, Paul Erdős, Abraham Wald, Béla Bollobás, András Sárközy, Cornelius Lanczos, Paul Halmos, George Pólya, Raoul Bott, Miklós Laczkovich, László Lovász, Marcel Grossmann, Frigyes Riesz, Lipót Fejér, Rózsa Péter, Peter Lax, Alfréd Rényi, Julius König, Endre Szemerédi, Farkas Bolyai, Dénes Kőnig, Éva Tardos, Sándor Csörgő, Alfréd Haar, Mario Szegedy. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : John von Neumann (né Neumann János, 1903-1957), mathématicien et physicien américain d'origine hongroise, a apporté d'importantes contributions tant en mécanique quantique, qu'en analyse fonctionnelle, en théorie des ensembles, en informatique, en sciences économiques ainsi que dans beaucoup d'autres domaines des mathématiques et de la physique. Il a de plus participé aux programmes militaires américains. Benjamin d'une fratrie de trois, il s'appelle tout d'abord Neumann János Lajos (les Hongrois placent les noms de famille en tête) à Budapest en Autriche-Hongrie. Il est le fils de Neumann Miksa (Max Neumann), un avocat-banquier, et de Kann Margit (Marguerite Kann). Il ne prête guère attention à ses origines juives, sinon pour son répertoire de blagues. János est un enfant prodige : à six ans, il converse avec son père en grec ancien et peut mentalement faire la division d'un nombre à huit chiffres. Une anecdote rapporte qu'à huit ans, il a déjà lu les quarante-quatre volumes de l'histoire universelle de la bibliothèque familiale et qu'il les a entièrement mémorisés : doté d'une mémoire eidétique, il sera capable de citer de mémoire des pages entières de livres lus des années auparavant. Il entre au lycée luthérien de Budapest (Budapesti Evangélikus Gimnázium) qui était germanophone en 1911. E...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: John Von Neumann, Linus Pauling, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vannevar Bush, Irving Berlin, Hendrik Wade Bode, William Stephenson, Leroy Grumman, Myron Charles Taylor, William F. Friedman, Theodore Von Kármán, Alfred Lee Loomis, John R. Dunning, Hugh Latimer Dryden, Ivan A. Getting, Juan Trippe, Joseph Desch, Frederick Terman, Granville Conway, Gaylord Harnwell, Edgar Sengier, James Gilbert Baker, Philip M. Morse, Presidential Medal for Merit, David Niles, Charles Allen Thomas, Cyril Stanley Smith, Clark Blanchard Millikan, William F. Durand, George W. Lewis, George W. Merck, Stephen J. Zand. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 253. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. For this reason he is remembered as "The Father of the Atomic Bomb". In reference to the Trinity test in New Mexico, where his Los Alamos team first tested the bomb, Oppenheimer famously recalled the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." After the war Oppenheimer was a chief advisor to the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission and used that position to lobby for international control of nuclear power and to avert the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. After provoking the ire of many politicians with his outspoken political opinions during the Red Scare, he had his security clearance revok...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=39034 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Von Neumann, János Pach, László Kalmár, Peter Bernus, Ingo Molnár, Peter G. Gyarmati, Laszlo Belady, Sándor Dominich, Peter Toma. Excerpt:Ingo Molnár Ingo Molnár , currently employed by Red Hat , is a Hungarian Linux hacker . He is best-known for his contributions to the operating system in terms of security and performance . Some of his additions to the Linux include an O(1) and CFS scheduler in the 2.6.x kernel series, the in-kernel TUX HTTP / FTP server , as well as his work to enhance thread handling. He also wrote a kernel security feature called "Exec Shield ", which prevents stack-based buffer overflow exploits in the x86 architecture by disabling the execute permission for the stack. One of his recent projects is the realtime preemption patch, which aims to bring hard-realtime scheduling latencies (50 60 microseconds worst-case execution time ) to Linux. Most recently, he has been working on the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS), an O(log n) scheduler that is included as of the 2.6.23 Linux. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at John von Neumann Qu... ... Read more

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Chapters: Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, John Von Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli, Freeman Dyson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atle Selberg, Edward Witten, Enrico Bombieri, John Milnor, André Weil, Vladimir Voevodsky, Robert Langlands, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Bernard Lewis, Shing-Tung Yau, Avishai Margalit, Peter Paret, Hermann Weyl, Abraham Pais, Frank Wilczek, Scott Tremaine, Tsung-Dao Lee, Herman Goldstine, Clifford Geertz, Peter Goldreich, Chen Ning Yang, Lars Hörmander, Albert O. Hirschman, Michael Walzer, Shiing-Shen Chern, Hassler Whitney, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Erwin Panofsky, David Mitrany, John N. Bahcall, Eric Maskin, Dorian M. Goldfeld, Ernst Kantorowicz, Amiya Chakravarty, Boris Podolsky, Pierre Deligne, Patricia Crone, Yve-Alain Bois, Marshall Rosenbluth, Jonathan Israel, Joan Wallach Scott, Bengt Strömgren, John Elliott, Charles R. Alcock, Oswald Veblen, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Morton White, James Waddell Alexander Ii, Luis Caffarelli, Armand Borel, Jean Bourgain, Glen Bowersock, Juan Martín Maldacena, Ernst Herzfeld, Marshall Clagett, Arne Beurling, Peter Sarnak, Kirk Varnedoe, Caroline Bynum, Oleg Grabar, Robert Macpherson, Phillip Griffiths, Marston Morse, Harold F. Cherniss, Homer Thompson, Avi Wigderson, Florian Pop, Peter Goddard, Nathan Seiberg, Tullio Regge, Nils Aall Barricelli, Stephen L. Adler, Deane Montgomery, Bruno Perreau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 440. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, Leó Szilárd, Ladislas Goldstein, Sándor Szalay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title. Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos colleague Robert Oppenheimer, Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and was both its director and associate director for many years. In his later years he became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermonuclear explosives. He was a vigorous advocate of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, perhaps overselling the feasibility of the program. Over the course of his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality, and is considered one of the inspirations for the character Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 movie of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=37782 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Forbes Nash, Jr., John Von Neumann, Kenneth Arrow, John Maynard Smith, Alvin E. Roth, Robert Aumann, Herbert Gintis, Edward Kofler, Anatol Rapoport, Donald B. Gillies, Kenneth Binmore, John Harsanyi, Artyom Shneyerov, George R. Price, Jean Tirole, Peter L. Hurd, Anna Nagurney, Lloyd Shapley, Roger Myerson, Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, Thomas Schelling, Eric Maskin, David Gale, Steven Brams, Motty Perry, Robert B. Wilson, Ehud Kalai, Jonathan Schaeffer, Paul Milgrom, Albert W. Tucker, Reinhard Selten, Donald G. Saari, Allan Gibbard, David K. Levine, Ariel Rubinstein, Cristina Bicchieri, Merrill M. Flood, Harold W. Kuhn, Debraj Ray, Robert Axelrod, László Mérő, Martin Shubik, Michael Maschler, Pradeep Dubey, Oskar Morgenstern, Rafael Robb, R. Duncan Luce, Guillermo Owen, John Glen Wardrop, Yair Tauman, Sergiu Hart, Rufus Isaacs, Robert W. Rosenthal, Robert J. Elliott, List of Game Theorists, Brian Skyrms, Bengt R. Holmström, Melvin Dresher, Alan D. Taylor, David M. Kreps. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 263. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history. The mathematician Jean Dieudonné called von Neumann "the last of the great mathematicians", while Peter Lax described him as possessing the most "fearsome technical prowess" and "scintillating intellect" of the century. Even in Budapest, in the time that produced...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15942 ... Read more