John Von Neumann : Selected Letters.

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword by P. Lax -- Introduction by Marina von Neumann Whitman -- Photographs -- List of specific permissions -- Introductory comments -- Letter to N. Aronszajn -- Letters to F. Aydelotte -- Letter to E.F. Beckenbach -- Letter to H. Bethe -- Letters to G. Birkhoff -- Letter to W.J.E. Blaschke -- Letter to R.S. Burington -- Letters to V. Bush -- Letter to R. Carnap -- Letter to W. Cattell -- Letter to T.M. Cherry -- Letter to H. Cirker -- Letter to H. Crocker -- Letter to M.R. Davie -- Letter to W.E. Deming -- Letter to J.L. Destouches -- Letter to P.A.M. Dirac -- Letters to J. Dixmier -- Letter to P.A. Dodd -- Letter to W.M. DuMond -- Letter to R.E. Duncan -- Letter to editor of Evening Star -- Letter to R. Farquharson -- Letter to A. Flexner -- Letter to R.O. Fornaguera -- Letter to N.H. Goldsmith -- Letter to W.H. Gottschalk (and Hans Rademacher) -- Letters to K. Gödel -- Letter to G. Haberler -- Letters to I. Halperin -- Letter to G.B. Harrison -- Letter to M. de Horvath -- Letter to A.S. Householder -- Letters to C.C. Hurd -- Letter to K. Husimi -- Letters to P. Jordan -- Letters to I. Kaplansky -- Letter to C.E. Kemble -- Letter to J.R. Killian -- Letters to H.D. Kloosterman -- Letter to H. Kuhn -- Letter to J. Lederberg -- Letter to W.E. Lingelbach -- Letter to S. MacLane -- Letter to J.C.C. McKinsey -- Letter to M.M. Mitchell -- Letter to T.V. Moore -- Letter to O. Morgenstern -- Letters to M. Morse -- Letter to E. Nagel -- Letter to J.R. Oppenheimer -- Letters to R. Ortvay -- Letter to W. Overbeck -- Letter to H.H. Rankin -- Letter to H.P. Robertson -- Letter to E. Schrödinger -- Letter to E. Segre -- Letters to F.B. Silsbee -- Letter to L. Spitzer -- Letters to M. Stone -- Letters to L.L. Strauss -- Letter to J. Stroux -- Letter to T. Tannaka -- Letter to E. Teller.

Letters to L.B. Tuckerman -- Letters to S. Ulam -- Letter to E.R. van Kampen -- Letters to O. Veblen -- Letters to N. Wiener -- Letter to H. Wold -- Notes on addresses of von Neumann's letters -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.

John von Neuman was perhaps the most influential mathematician of the twentieth century, especially if his broad influence outside mathematics is included. Not only did he contribute to almost all branches of mathematics and created new fields, but he also changed post-World War II history with his work on the design of computers and with being a sought-after technical advisor to many figures in the U.S. military-political establishment in the 1940s and 1950s.The present volume is the first substantial collection of (previously mainly unpublished) letters written by von Neumann to colleagues, friends, government officials, and others. The letters give us a glimpse of the thinking of John von Neumann about mathematics, physics, computer science, science management, education, consulting, politics, and war. Readers of quite diverse backgrounds will find much of interest in this fascinating first-hand look at one of the towering figures of twentieth century science.

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