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John von Neumann ( / v ɒ n ˈ n ɔɪ m ən / von NOY-mən ; Hungarian : Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ] ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician , physicist , computer scientist , engineer and polymath . He was regarded as having perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time [13] and was said to have been "the last representative of the great mathematicians who were equally at home in both pure and applied mathematics". [14] [15] He integrated pure and applied sciences . Born Neumann János Lajos - December 28, 1903 Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungar y Died - February 8, 1957 (aged 53) Washington, D.C. , U.S Von Neumann made major contributions to many fields, including mathematics ( mathematical logic , measure theory , functional analysis , ergodic theory , group theory , lattice theory , representation theory , operator algebras , matrix theory , geometry , and numeri