This volume contains the proceedings of an AMS Symposium in Pure Mathematics, held at Hofstra University, in May 1988. The symposium brought together some of the foremost researchers in the wide range of areas in which von Neumann worked. These articles illustrate the sweep of von Neumann's ideas and thinking and document their influence on contemporary mathematics. In addition, some of those who knew von Neumann when he was alive have presented here personal reminiscences about him. This book is directed to those interested in operator theory, game theory, ergodic theory, and scientific computing, as well as to historians of mathematics and others having an interest in the contemporary history of the mathematical sciences. This book will give readers an appreciation for the workings of the mind of one of the mathematical giants of our time.
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The ideas of John von Neumann have had a profound influence on modern mathematics and science. One of the great thinkers of our century, von Neumann initiated major branches of mathematics---from operator algebras to game theory to scientific computing---and had a fundamental impact on such areas as self-adjoint operators, ergodic theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics, and numerical analysis and the design of the modern computer.
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double commutant theorem, matricial factors, tracial weight, unreliable gates, des pavages, quantum phenomenology, wavenumber shells, chronometric cosmology, cohomologie cyclique, noncommutative integration theory, entire cyclic cohomology, measure preserving system, classe fondamentale, ergodic actions, quantum field equations, measure preserving action, metric transitivity, restoring organ, représentations irréductibles, pointwise ergodic theorem, flatness values, mean ergodic theorem, reliable organisms, ergodic averages, unreliable components Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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