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John von Neumann
Fasori Evangelikus Gimnázium
in 1911
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John von Neumann
Pázmány Péter University
in 1923
in
Budapest
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John von Neumann
Ph.D. from ETH Zurich
in 1926
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John von Neumann
University of Göttingen
in 1926
on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study mathematics under David Hilbert
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John von Neumann
habilitation
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750677
John von Neumann
privatdozent
in 1928
in
Berlin
at the University of Berlin
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1929
John von Neumann
privatdozent
in 1929
in
Hamburg
at the University of Hamburg
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750678
John von Neumann
proffessor
in
Baltimore
Princeton University
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750680
John von Neumann
Mariette Kövesi
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750681
John von Neumann
Mariette Kövesi
in 1937
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John von Neumann
Bôcher Memorial Prize
in 1938
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John von Neumann
Klara Dan
in 1938
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John von Neumann
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
in 1944
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750684
John von Neumann
Los Alamos
in 1944
in
Hermosillo
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1946
John von Neumann
Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award
in 1946
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750668
John von Neumann
Medal for Merit
in 1946
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John von Neumann
in 1947
" I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics."

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John von Neumann
in 1947
" But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas."

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John von Neumann
consultant to the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG)
in 1950
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