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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 107 KB
Volume: 24
Category: Article
ISSN: 0315-0860
DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1997.2153

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He was in close personal contact with von Neumann from 1935, when they began to discuss the questions treated in their well-known paper on ''The Logic of Quantum Mechanics,'' until around 1952, when the Institute for Advanced Study decided that it would be inappropriate to continue to house a computer financed by government contracts, and von Neumann became overwhelmed by requests for his advice on urgent national problems. A memorable event during those years was von Neumann's talk on ''High-speed computing devices and mathematical analysis,'' given at the First Canadian Mathematical Congress in June, 1945, but never written up. At that session, von Neumann, Birkhoff, and Douglas Hartree were the successive speakers.

Loren Butler Feffer studies the history and philosophy of mathematics and the physical sciences and their interactions. Much of her research to date has focused on the history of interdisciplinary work in American science, especially physics and mathematics. Recent publications include ''Robert Mulliken and the Politics of Science and Scientists, 1939-1946,'' Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25 (1994), 25-46. Her current historical projects include a broad study of the intellectual and institutional challenges to interdisciplinary science in the United States during the 20th century and a biography of Robert Mulliken.

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