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"The relationship with Weyl was so close that the 22-year-old student von Neumann finished his lecture on axiomatics in February 1925 when Weyl had to take a health-related leave. In doing so, Weyl reported to the Swiss School Council that von Neumann, alongside Hilbert, was "the most expert among present mathematicians" in this field and that he himself in his lecture had "presented the subject in that form which had emerged from the unpublished investigations of Mr. Neumann.""

— John von Neumann

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Hermann Weyl, as quoted in Johann Ludwig Neumann von Margitta (1903–1957) Teil 1: Lehrjahre eines jüdischen Mathematikers während der Zeit der Weimarer Republik by Ulf Hashagen (2006)

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John von Neumann

John von Neumann (28 December 1903 – 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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