John von Neumann - Het zenuwstelsel als computer
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John von Neumann - Het zenuwstelsel als computer - Rotterdam - Universitaire Pers - 1966 - 1st edition - [116]pp - Paperback - 14 x 21 cm.
Condition: Good - Added 1966 newspaper clipping 'Computer on the rise'. Ex-library Simon Vinkenoog (which is not visible except for some wear).
Dutch translation of 'The Computer and the Brain' (1958); a posthumously published speculative study on the human brain as a calculator. With foreword by Klara von Neumann and this Dutch edition with introduction by Prof. Dr. Ir. A. van Wijngaarden. Cover design: Walter Nikkels.
¶ The Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann (János Neumann (1903-1957) was involved in the Manhattan Project (the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and at the end of the Second World War in the development of the first electronic computer ENIAC. Von Neumann is considered the founder of current computer architecture.