Dr. Von Neumann's views on the analogies between the human brain and computing machines

The Computer and the Brain

Medical Books

Von Neumann, John

Medicine

Yale Univ Pr

This book, composed of material prepared for the Silliman Lectures by john von Neumann before his death, represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines adn the living human brain. He concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers.

The Computer and the Brain (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Yale University Press

With a foreword by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. ChurchlandThis book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. This edition includes a new foreword by two eminent figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness.

The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many contributions to science, mathematics, and engineering include the basic organizational framework at the heart of today's computers, concludes that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its own peculiar statistical language. 
In his foreword to this new edition, Ray Kurzweil, a futurist famous in part for his own reflections on the relationship between technology and intelligence, places von Neumann’s work in a historical context and shows how it remains relevant today.

This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Business & Money

Morgenstern, Oskar

Economics

Princeton University Press

In his work on rings of operators in Hilbert space, John von Neumann discovered a new mathematical structure that resembled the lattice system Ln. In characterizing its properties, von Neumann founded the field of continuous geometry.
 This book, based on von Neumann's lecture notes, begins with the development of the axioms of continuous geometry, dimension theory, and--for the irreducible case--the function D(a). The properties of regular rings are then discussed, and a variety of results are presented for lattices that are continuous geometries, for which irreducibility is not assumed. For students and researchers interested in ring theory or projective geometries, this book is required reading.

Continuous Geometry

Science & Math

Mathematics

The description for this book, Continuous Geometry (PMS-25), will be forthcoming.

Continuous Geometry (PMS-25) (Princeton Mathematical Series, 10)

Functional Operators, Volume 1: Measures and Integrals. (AM-21) (Annals of Mathematics Studies, 21)

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics was a revolutionary book that caused a sea change in theoretical physics. Here, John von Neumann, one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, shows that great insights in quantum physics can be obtained by exploring the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. He begins by presenting the theory of Hermitean operators and Hilbert spaces. These provide the framework for transformation theory, which von Neumann regards as the definitive form of quantum mechanics. Using this theory, he attacks with mathematical rigor some of the general problems of quantum theory, such as quantum statistical mechanics as well as measurement processes. Regarded as a tour de force at the time of publication, this book is still indispensable for those interested in the fundamental issues of quantum mechanics.

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics)

Physics

Functional Operators, Volume II: The Geometry of Orthogonal Spaces: 2 (Annals of Mathematics Studies)

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The Computer and the Brain

The Computer and the Brain (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)

The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)

The Computer and the Brain (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series)

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Continuous Geometry

Continuous Geometry (PMS-25) (Princeton Mathematical Series, 10)

Functional Operators, Volume 1: Measures and Integrals. (AM-21) (Annals of Mathematics Studies, 21)

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics)

Functional Operators, Volume II: The Geometry of Orthogonal Spaces: 2 (Annals of Mathematics Studies)