Bloch, Felix, 161
Bochner, Salomon, 66, 69, 73
Bohr, Niels (1885–1962), 81, 161 f, 168 f, 286
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 56, 85
Bolzano, Bernard, 282
Boole, George, 144
Borel, Emile, 282
Borsuk, Karol, 40 f, 57, 68, 270
Boulder, Col., 104, 205, 250, 266, 302
Bradbury, Norris, 192, 211 f, 215, 220 f, 223, 249
brain, workings of, 12 ff, 19, 52, 78, 97, 175 f, 180 ff, 199, 236, 241 f, 244, 274, 276, 279, 284, 289, 301
Breit, Gregory, 124, 132, 150
Breton, Hal and Hattie von, 174 f, 179
Brillouin, Léon, 132
Brillouin, Stéfa, 132 f
British Mission, 228, 250
Broglie, Louis Victor de, 165
Brown, Harold, 255
Budenny, Marshall S., 15
Burks, Arthur, 241, 285
Bush, Vannevar, 251
Café Szkocka, see Scottish Cafe
Calkin, John W., 169, 177, 190, 209
Cambridge, England, 38, 58 ff
Cambridge, Mass., 29, 88, 94, 114, 116, 119, 122, 138, 205, 242
Cantor, Georg (1845–1918), 22, 29, 105, 263, 272, 282
Capablanca, José, 19
Caro, 108 f
Cartan, Elie (1869–1951), 57
Cauchy, Augustin (1789–1895), 85
Cayley, Arthur (1821–1895), 264
CERN (Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire), 261 f
Chadwick, Sir James, 161
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 60 f
Cherwell, Lord (Frederick A. Lindemann), 229, 251
chess, 18, 23, 35, 42, 55, 120, 179, 202, 280
Churchill, Sir Winston, 229, 251
Chwistek, Leon, 29 f
Coble, Arthur B., 74
Cohen, Leon, 130
Cohen, Paul, 55, 96, 283, 285
computing machines, see electronic computers
Conant, James B., 251
Condon, Edward (1902–1973), 104, 203, 267, 301
Congressional Space Committee, 254
Conway, John B., 285
cosmology, see astronomy
Crick, Sir Francis H., 204, 241, 260, 300
Cushing, Harvey, 175
Czech, Edward, 107
Dan, Klara, see Neumann, Klari von
Danzig, J. van, 295
Darboux, Gaston (1842–1917), 33, 58
Davis, Robert R., 169
Del Sasso, Lewis A., 244
Descartes, René (1596–1650), 194, 206, 301
Dickstein, Samuel (1851–1939), 45
Doolittle, General James H., 257
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 59, 145
Dykstra, Clarence A., 126
Dyson, Freeman, 256
Eddington, Sir Arthur S. (1882–1944), 60, 62
Eilenberg, Samuel, 66, 68, 134
Einerson, Ivar, 86
Einstein, Albert (1879–1955), 4, 6, 18, 47, 62, 73, 81, 108, 112, 157, 167, 184, 205, 223, 272, 294
Eisenhower, President Dwight D., 243, 251, 253, 255
electronic computers, 4, 13, 96, 137, 155, 181 f, 197 f, 200 f, 212 f, 215 f, 218, 225 f, 229, 241, 244, 257, 264, 284 ff;
see also automata
Eliot, Charles W., 87
Elliott, Josephine, 215
Erdös, Paul, 53, 54, 60, 131, 134 ff, 178 f, 294
Ernst, Marcin, 16 f
Estreicher, Karol, 30
Euler, Leonhard (1707–1783), 20, 58, 104
Evans, Cerda and Foster, 213
Evans, Herbert, 130
Everett, C. J., 31, 104, 124, 129 ff, 160, 195, 213 ff, 219 f, 225, 253
evolution, 205
Feinsinger, Nathan P., 125
Fejer, Leopold (1880–1959), 110
Fermat, Pierre (1601–1665), 48, 278, 291
Fermi, Enrico (1901–1954), 6, 152, 157, 161 ff, 172, 184, 191, 193, 215, 217 ff, 223, 225 ff, 233 ff, 243, 245, 257, 303
Fermi, Laura, 234, 236 f, 282
Feynman, Richard, 77, 150, 152 f, 156 ff, 162, 169, 221, 252, 297
Fisk, James B., 86, 193
fission bomb, see atomic bomb
Flanders, Donald A., 169
Ford, Kenneth, 220
Ford, Colonel Vince, 255
Foucault pendulum, 230
Fowler, Williarn A., 257
Frankel, Stanley, 153, 184 f, 213
France, Anatole, 23, 123, 224
Freud, Sigmund, 18,22
Frisch, David and Rose, 144
Frisch, Otto, 6, 162
Froman, Darol K., 219
Galois, Evariste (1811–1832), 207, 277
Gamow, Barbara, 205
Gamow, George (1904–1968), 100, 151, 202 ff, 211 f, 231 f, 266 f, 270, 294, 303
Gamow, Rho, 233
Gardner Space Committee, 256
Gardner, Trevor, 255 ff
Gaulle, General Charles de, 251
Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777–1855), 231, 289
Getting, Ivan, 86
Goad, Walter, 259
Gödel, Kurt, 55, 76, 80, 283
Goldstein, Max, 218
Gorman, Elizabeth S., 244
Gould, Gordon, 259
Graustein, William Caspar (1888–1941), 75, 89
Greenstein, Jesse L., 257
Griggs, David, 257
Grossman, M., 57
Guerlach, Henry, 86
Gurney, Herbert W., 267
Guttierrez, J. J., 168
Hadamard, Jacques (1865–1963), 121 f
Halpern, Ada, 45
Hanfmann, George, 87
Hanley, Professor, 125, 130
Hardy, Godfrey H. (1877–1947), 58, 60, 94
Harlow, Francis, 196
Harvard, 5, 61, 71, 75, 82, 84, 86, 88 f, 91 f, 95, 100, 112 f, 116 ff, 122 f, 125, 128, 137, 147, 191, 223, 231, 260
Hausdorff, Felix, 55
Hawkins, David, 153, 158 ff, 174, 190, 214, 266, 281
Hawkins, Frances, 161
Heidegger, Martin, 264
Heisenberg, Werner, 165, 221
Henderson, Lawrence J. (1878–1942), 86, 88, 118
Herblock (Herbert Block), 251
Hermite, Charles, 58
Hilbert, David (1862–1943), 6, 45, 57, 76, 81 f, 282, 289, 291, 293, 295
Hill, Albert, 257
Hinton, Joan, 144
Hirniak, 48 f
Hitler, Adolf, 35 f, 263
Hoffmann, Frédéric de, 211, 220
Homans, George, 88
Hopf, Heinz, 57
Houtermans, Fritz, 149
Hurewicz, Witold (1904–1956), 116
Hurwitz, Henry, Jr., 145
Husserl, Edmund, 264
hydrogen bomb, 5, 109, 131, 152, 184, 195, 209 ff, 219 ff, 234, 236 f, 251
Hyers, Donald, 124, 131, 173, 186
ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), 231;
von Neumann ICBM Committee, 241, 255, 257
implosion, 153 f
Infeld, Leopold, 61 f
Ingraham, Mark, 120, 127, 134, 144
Institut Poincaré, 57 f
Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton), 4, 47, 66, 68 ff, 73 f, 134, 238
Janiszewski, Zygmunt (1888–1920), 25, 38
Jimenez y Flores, 56
Johnson, President Lyndon B., 251, 254 f
Kac, Mark, 43 f, 96, 255, 268 ff
Kaczmarz, Stefan, 26 f
Kárman, Theodore von (1881–1963), 70, 79, 109
Kennedy, President John F., 86, 89, 251, 253, 256 f
Kister, James, 201
Kistiakowski, George B., 143, 169, 253
Kleene, Steven, 124
Knaster, Bronislaw, 40, 44, 46
Kolmogoroff, Andrej N., 160, 295
Konopinski, Emil, 149 f, 152, 169
Kowalevski, Gerhardt, 19
Kruskal, Martin, 227
Kuratowski, Kazimir, 25 ff, 35 f, 38, 40 f, 44, 46 f, 55, 65 f, 75, 107
Lagrange, Comte Joseph de (1736–1813), 104
Langer, Lawrence, 169
Langer, William, 134, 173
language, influence of on thought, 275
Laplace, Pierre Simon de (1749–1827), 58, 159
Lauritsen, Charles C. (1892–1968), 257
Lawrence, Ernest O. (1901–1958), 161, 170, 211
Lax, Peter, 228
Lebesgue, Henri (1875–1941), 282
Lefschetz, Solomon (1884–1972), 68 f, 132
Lehmer, D. H., 117
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716), 104