John von Neumann Quotes - Page 2

• El hecho más característico de las matemáticas es, en mi opinión, su peculiar relación con las ciencias naturales o, más en general, con cualquier ciencia que interprete la experiencia a un nivel superior al puramente descriptivo.

  John von Neumann

  Niveles, Hechos, Peculiares

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). "El compendio Neumann", p.618, World Scientific

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• Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

  John von Neumann

  Science, Simple, Understanding

  Citado en Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)

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• Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

  John von Neumann

  Numbers, Sin, Arithmetic

  "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in "Monte Carlo Method" edited by A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe and H.H. Germond, 1951.

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• If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

  John von Neumann

  Might, Transformation, Mathematical

  John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.632, World Scientific

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• It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

  John von Neumann

  Running, Effort, Understanding

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). "El compendio Neumann", p.618, World Scientific

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• Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

  John von Neumann

  Media, May, Life Is

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• You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

  John von Neumann

  Morning, Up Early, Waiting

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• I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

  John von Neumann

  Numbers, People, Tea

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• The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

  John von Neumann

  Algorithms, Physics, Mathematics

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.453, World Scientific

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• Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

  John von Neumann

  Ingenioso, poderoso, humorístico

  "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in "Monte Carlo Method" edited by A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe and H.H. Germond, 1951.

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