In 1903, Budapest had a new member of the population. John von Neumann was an inventor and mathematician who was born into a hungarian family. Max and Margaret von Neumann were his parents. John Von Neumann was the oldest of 3 children in the Von Neumann family.
John Von Neumann was known for his amazing creativity and mathematics. He went into a career as a professional mathematician. Part of his job was to create papers that reviewed his own theories about mathematics. After he wrote and released them, Von Neumann would show other mathematicians his work.
In his later life he got awarded the Bócher Memorial Prize and the Enrico Fermi Award. He was diagnosed with bone cancer and 18 months later he, sadly, passed away. Although he isn’t alive today, his legacy lives on.
My sources were: http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-von-Neumann
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