John Von Neumann was born in Budapest the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born to wealthy Jewish parents, Miksa Neumann and Margit Kann, and was the firstborn of three boys. Mariette Kovesi was his first wife, and together they had a daughter. After getting a divorce, Von Neumann married Klari Dan. Von Neumann attended ETH Zurich, where he received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering, and Eotvos Lorand University (or Budapest University), where he received a PhD in mathematics. He received both degrees at the age of twenty-two. Important people in his life included, Laszio Racz, Erhard Schmidt, and Hermann Weyl, but probably most important David Hilbert, whom interested Von Neumann in two important things; these two things, “the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics” and mathematical logic. Another person that had a great influence on Von Neumann was Oswald Veblen who helped him get a job at Princeton. Additional teachers, tutors, and mentors that influenced Von Neumann were Lipot Fejer, Laszlo Ratz, and Szego. Lipot Fejer was a thesis or doctoral advisor for Von Neumann; Laszlo Ratz was his mathematics teacher in high school at Fasori Gimnaziumi; and Szego was his house tutor. Von Neumann’s desire for to study math began at a young age. When he was six years old, “he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head,” and two years later, “he was familiar with differential and integral calculus.” When he turned fifteen, he started studying calculus, and by the time he was nineteen he had already published two major articles concerning mathematics. Early in Von Neumann’s life in 1914, World War I began. In the middle of Von Neumann’s life in 1929, the Stock Market crashes and causes the Great Depressi...
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... a 4-digit starting value is created and squared, producing an 8-digit number. The middle 4 digits of the result would be the next number in the sequence, and returned as the result.” Then to create more numbers the process is continued. By writing up the draft for the EDVAC and creating the middle-square method, Van Neumann was able to contribute to technology and mathematics. By creating the middle-square method, the technology and efficiency of the computer could be advanced. Additionally, by coming up with ideas for the EDVAC, he was to create a higher-level computer and therefore, continue to contribute to the advancement of the computer. From this discovery, I have learned the necessity of math in computer design. It was also intriguing learning how the computer has developed over time and what great influenced Von Neumann had on the improvement of it.
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. By the age of 17 he was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, English and German. Early in his life he had a huge interest in English literature and poetry as well as in chemistry and physics. Alfred's father disliked his interest in poetry and found his son rather introverted. In order to widen Alfred's horizons his father sent him to different institutions for further training in chemical engineering. During a two-year period he visited Sweden, Germany, France and the United States. He came to enjoy Paris the best. There he worked in the private laboratory of Professor T. J. Pelouze, a famous chemist. He also met the young Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero who, three years earlier, had invented nitroglycerine.
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At some point in our lives, we have wondered about the possibility of a computer being able to think. John Searle addresses this issue in his paper, “Can Computers Think?”, where he argues that computers cannot think because they are directed by formal information. This means that the information presented is only syntax with no semantics behind it. In this paper, I will elaborate more on Searle’s position and reasoning whilst critiquing his argument by saying that it is possible to derive semantics from syntax. Finally, I will analyze the significance of my criticism and present a possible response from Searle to defend his argument.
John Maynard Keynes, British economist, journalist, was born on June 5th 1883, in Cambridge, England. His father, Dr. John Neville Keynes, was an economist and a philosopher. Keynes attended Eton and then Cambridge University. At first he studied Mathematics but then turned his attention to Economics when he was offered the job at the British treasurer after the First World War when the British economy was at pressure. A man who gained a modicum amount of wealth from 1919 to 1938, married Lydia Lopokova in 1926 and passed away on April 21st, 1946.
Alan Mathison Turing was surrounded by enigma, not only did he break many cryptic codes but he also lived a mysterious life. Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in Paddington, London to Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. Turing’s father, Julius, was an officer in the British administration in India when he decided that his son would be
People have been in awe of computers since they were first invented. At first scientist said that computers would only be for government usage only. “Then when the scientists saw the potential computers had, scientist then predicted that by 1990 computers may one day invade the home of just about ever citizen in the world” (“History” Internet), the scientists were slightly wrong, because by 1990 computers were just beginning to catch on. Then a few years later when scientists when to major corporations to get help with a special project, the corporations said no, because computers would just be a fad and they wouldn’t make much money off of it. “By definition Abacus is the first computer (the proper definition of a computer is one who or that which computes) ever invented” (Internet).
In 500 B.C. the abacus was first used by the Babylonians as an aid to simple arithmetic. In 1623 Wihelm Schickard (1592 - 1635) invented a "Calculating Clock". This mechanical machine could add and subtract up to 6 digit numbers, and warned of an overflow by ringing a bell. J. H. Mueller comes up with the idea of the "difference engine", in 1786. This calculator could tabulate values of a polynomial. Muellers attempt to raise funds fails and the project was forgotten. Scheutz and his son Edward produced a 3rd order difference engine with a printer in 1843 and their government agreed to fund their next project.
Von Neumann was born in 1903 in Budapest, Hungary. His first mathematical paper was published, along with the help of his tutor, when he was 18. Von Neumann went on to study mathematics in college and eventually earned his PhD in mathematics with a minor in both physics and chemistry. Game Theory is said to have been developed by Von Neumann in 1944.
Alan Turning is known to be a pioneer of many facets of the computer age. The digital computer, artificial intelligence, memory subroutines, the Turning Machine, the Turing Test, and the application of algorithms to computers are all ideas somehow related to this man.
The “Blaise Pascaline,” as referred to in [3] would be considered today as an early version of a calculator. This project derived in part from helping out his father who had been promoted as a tax clerk, a job which required him to perform long calculations at work. Only one other mechanical device was known to add up figures before the Pascaline and that was known as the Schickard's calculating clock, created by German professor Wilhelm Schickard. Unlike Schickard device, Pascal’s calculator had a larger number of production and use despite the somewhat unreliability of the device. The device consisted of a wheel with eight movable parts for dialing and each part corresponding to a particular digit in a number. It worked by using gears and pins to add integers; addends were entered by hand and carriers from one column to the next were broadcast internally by falling weights lifted and dropped by the pins attached to the gears. It could even be manipulated to subtract, multiply and divide if one knew their way around the Pascaline. Subtraction was done by adding the nines complement version of the number being subtracted. Multiplication; accomplished by repeating additions and division performed by repeating subtractions. Balise Pascals went on to inspire directly inspired further work on calculating machines by other inventors such as Gottfried Leibniz and Samuel
Mark I. It was actually a electromechanical calculation. It is said that this was the first potentially computers. In 1951 Remington Rand’s came out with the UNIVAC it began
Between 1850 and 1900, the mathematics and physics fields began advancing. The advancements involved extremely arduous calculations and formulas that took a great deal of time when done manually.
The history of the computer dates back all the way to the prehistoric times. The first step towards the development of the computer, the abacus, was developed in Babylonia in 500 B.C. and functioned as a simple counting tool. It was not until thousands of years later that the first calculator was produced. In 1623, the first mechanical calculator was invented by Wilhelm Schikard, the “Calculating Clock,” as it was often referred to as, “performed it’s operations by wheels, which worked similar to a car’s odometer” (Evolution, 1). Still, there had not yet been anything invented that could even be characterized as a computer. Finally, in 1625 the slide rule was created becoming “the first analog computer of the modern ages” (Evolution, 1). One of the biggest breakthroughs came from by Blaise Pascal in 1642, who invented a mechanical calculator whose main function was adding and subtracting numbers. Years later, Gottfried Leibnez improved Pascal’s model by allowing it to also perform such operations as multiplying, dividing, taking the square root.
The idea about how the brain operates has been around for centuries and the amount of ideas surrounding it is endless. Some of the ideas that people have proposed are that the brain is meant to cool the blood or the brain is an electrical device (Thiede 2016). Although there are many theories that explain how the human mind works, one in particular is the theory that the human mind is a computer. John von Neumann proposed the idea of the human mind as a computer in 1958 and it became popular from his book about it. The similarities that have been found between humans and computers involve the way that cells and diodes function. Unfortunately, John von Neumann did not complete the idea of the human mind as a computer because he passed away before
"programming" rules that the user must memorize, all ordinary arithmetic operations can be performed (Soma, 14). The next innovation in computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first “digital calculating machine”. It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal’s father who