John Von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest. His father was a banker. John was a child prodigy. At the age of 6, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head. At 8, he mastered calculus; by 12 he was at the graduate level in mathematics. At 17, his father tried to get him to become something more financially practical then a mathematician. John agreed to study chemistry along with mathematics. He studied chemistry in Berlin and …showed first 75 words of 406 total…

…showed last 75 words of 406 total…ored programs led to some of the technology used today. With his new ideas the old machines being used had to be rewired. >From 1950 to 1955, he was a member of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project in Washington, DC. In 1956 he received the Enrico Fermi Award from the Atomic Energy Commission, which he was appointed too. At this time he founded out he had an incurable cancer. John von Neumann died in 1957. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**