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I truly have a dislike of trying label people or retrospectively try to guess, speculate on somebodies inner most convictions. It still has to be said that some facts can be pieced togheter. Koldewe (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
dont know what section to use so using this one - his conviction was to bomb Kyoto a military insignificant city? what ahols are these mathematicians? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juror1 (talk • contribs) 07:45, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Habilitation Berlin, Dec 1927
Excerpts of course list 1929/30 to 1932/33, Berlin
I plan to add the following article to the literature list:
Ulf Hashagen: Die Habilitation von John von Neumann an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin: Urteile über einen ungarisch-jüdischen Mathematiker in Deutschland im Jahr 1927, Historia Mathematica, Band 37, 2010, S. 242–280
and incorporate some conclusions into the part on Berlin/Hamburg, 1926–1932.
The habilitation was completed in mid of December, 1927 in Berlin. Because the habilitation was necessary for being a ′Privatdozent′, the first teaching term must have been the summer term 1928. In the scans shown on the right we see that von Neumann was on leave (′beurlaubt′) in the terms a) summer 1930, b) winter 31/32, c) winter 32/33, and that he taught courses in the other terms (with the exception of summer 1929). I also checked the course list of Hamburg for the summer term 1929 and found ′Axiomatik der Mengenlehre: Dr. v. Neumann. MoDiDoFr 16–17′. Therefore we can conclude that von Neumann was ′Privatdozent′ in Berlin from 1928 through 1932 (even 1933, but on leave), with one term in Hamburg (summer 1929) and two terms in Princeton (summer 1930, winter 31/32) before leaving Berlin. -- KurtSchwitters (talk) 14:17, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
I think the additional source
Ulf Hashagen: Johann Ludwig Neumann von Margitta (1903–1957). Part 1: Lehrjahre eines jüdischen Mathematikers während der Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Informatik-Spektrum (Springer), Vol. 29, 2006, p. 133–141, Part 2: Ein Privatdozent auf dem Weg von Berlin nach Princeton. Informatik-Spektrum, Vol. 29, S. 227–236.
would be helpful for the time until 1933. These are two articles in German containing a variety of source material (as does the other article by Hashagen on von Neumann's habilitation). Using part of the article I deleted the claim that von Neumann was the youngest Privatdozent at the Berlin university ever. --KurtSchwitters (talk) 15:04, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Contradiction of Mother's year of death between article and Tombstone picture
Under the "Later life and death" section, second paragraph, first sentence, it was stated that his mother, Margaret von Neumann, died in 1936. However on the tombstone in the picture on the right, we could see on the lower left side that it reads, "MARGARET VON NEUMANN 1881-1956" --Positronblue (talk) 10:16, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes, good catch. It's well known that she died not long before her son's own death and shortly after her granddaughter's wedding. I've gone and fixed that passage. — Myasuda (talk) 12:53, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
small additional paragraph in intro referencing section in article proper on pop interest in his iq etc
referencing info in article proper on well-known, often repeated anecdotes/tales of his brilliance etc and pop interest in how smart he was, got reverted due to puffery... "Von Neumann's contemporaries told many stories about his unusual intelligence. His mind was described by even his brilliant peers as having an otherworldly quality. It has been speculated that Von Neumann's IQ may be among the highest in human history."
Business Insider article cited about this speculation...think modestly improves intro for people with pop/nontechnical interest in subject...could change "brilliant peers" to "intellectual peers" and "otherworldly quality" to "different quality" for less puffery....but seems a fairly sober paragraph to me that summarizes info in article proper.. 68.48.241.158 (talk) 18:09, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Corruption of article by Hawkeye7
User:Hawkeye7 has made many changes to the article, including adding statements directly contradicted by the cited sources and removing statements supported by cited reliable sources. I reverted two changes, then realized how many other problems they had introduced. 81.158.250.223 (talk) 19:44, 6 March 2016 (UTC)