dec 28, 1903 - John Von Neumann

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John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath. Von Neumann was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians", who integrated both pure and applied sciences. He was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary and died on February 8, 1957 in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda. Von Neumann was an important figure in computer science. The use of memory in digital computers to store both sequences of instructions and data was a breakthrough to which von Neumann made major contributions. Von Neumann is credited with at least one contribution to the study of algorithms.