"I tried at that time to cast the unifying Dirac-Jordan transformation theory into a simpler and more easily understandable form and to convey its essence to Hilbert. When von Neumann saw this he cast it in a few days into an elegant axiomatic form much to the liking of Hilbert. (This is the origin of the paper āOber die Grundlagen der Quantenmechanikā by Hilbert, von Neumann and myself . . .). The method used was that of integral operators. . . . This work set von Neumann on his way to his definite studies on the foundations of quantum mechanics."
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Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, as quoted in John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death (1980), p. 431
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann (28 December 1903 ā 8 February 1957) was a Hungarian-American-Jewish mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, set theory, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear p
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