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Klara Dán (Klara Dan von Neumann)
He is considered one of the world's first programmers. His programming work also contributed to solving mathematical problems.
She met her third husband, János Neumann, during a visit to Budapest before the outbreak of World War II. They married in 1938, and she emigrated to join him in the United States.
From 1943 to 1945, he was head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton University.
He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) from 1946. He first joined the programmers working on the ENIAC computer built at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa, USA). Then, when the MANIAC I machine was completed at Los Alamos in 1951, he participated in its programming work.
Meanwhile, he taught meteorologists who work on weather forecasts how to program.
It is known that the coding of the Monte Carlo method was carried out with his participation.
His early death cut short his work.
- Wikipedia
- von Neumann, Klara: Preface Von Neumann Silliman lectures. The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. 1957.
- János Varga: Klára Dán, the pioneer of women programmers (World of Nature, 155th volume, no. 6, June 2024)
- Klára Dán — esoteric intellect who wrote the first modern computer code (Ananyo Bhattacharya, Engelsberg Ideas: Portraits, May 13, 2022)
- At the age of fourteen, she became a national figure skating champion.
- János Neumann's posthumous material containing the so-called Silliman memorial lectures, edited with a foreword by Klára Dán (see above), was later published by Yale University Press under the title "The Computer and the Brain" (which was published by Gondolat Kiadó under the title "The Computer and the Brain" in 1964).
- Editor's Note: Los Alamos was the site of the final stages of the Manhattan Project, the American effort to develop the atomic bomb, and the first two atomic bombs. Following World War II, the first hydrogen bomb was developed here.
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