Who was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist that helped introduce a technique for using unbounded operators to study modules generated by a single vector?
John von Neumann John von Neumann ( ; Hungarian: "Neumann János Lajos" , ] ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, representation theory, operator algebras, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.
Michael Makkai Michael Makkai (Hungarian: "Makkai Mihály" , 24 June 1939 in Budapest, Hungary) is Canadian mathematician of Hungarian origin, specializing in mathematical logic. He works in model theory, category theory, algebraic logic, and in the theory of topoi. He was awarded his PhD from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in 1966, having been supervised by Rózsa Péter and Andrzej Mostowski. He then worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 1974 and 2010, he was professor of mathematics at the McGill University, retiring in 2010. He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995).