ETH Zurich is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss federal government in 1854, the university primarily teaches and conducts research in science, technology, engineering, a
ETH Zurich main building
View onto the main building from the Polyterrasse
ETH Zurich's main building at night
Albert Einstein's former student locker at ETH Zurich
John von Neumann was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer. Von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure
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…fields of natural sciences at this conference since 1962. ETH Zurich has produced and attracted many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and John von Neumann. More than twenty two Nobel laureates have either studied at ETH Zurich or were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work achieved at ETH Zurich. Other…
Excerpt from the university calendars for 1928 and 1928/29 of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin announcing Neumann's lectures on the theory of functions II, axiomatic set theory and mathematical logic, the mathematical colloquium, review of recent work in quantum mechanics, special functions of mathematical physics and Hilbert's proof theory. He also lectured on the theory of relativity, set theory, integral equations and analysis of infinitely many variables.
Von Neumann's memorial plaque on the wall of his birthplace in Budapest, 5th district Báthory u. 26.
The AVIDAC computer was partially based on the architecture of the IAS machine developed by von Neumann.