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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. John von Neumann was a mathematical genius known for many things, notably including the design of stored-program computer architecture and the invention of game theory. He perhaps should also be better known than he is as the father of Marina von Neumann Whitman, the author of this remarkable memoir. Whitman, who is now in her 70s, has lived an extraordinary life. She was the first woman to serve on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors; she was one of the first women to sit on the boards of several major, international corporations; and she was the first female chief economist of GM. In addition, she’s been a very successful academic economist. Her book is intelligent, informative, interesting, and inspiring, providing thoroughly engaging accounts of what it’s like to operate in the highest echelons of government and industry, and of what it’s like to be a woman in a man’s world. At times supremely confident, at times cautious, Whitman is deeply self-aware of what she has done well and what she has failed at, and she is strikingly honest and open is describing her own flaws as well as her successes. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed ""the Martians"" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century and even as the greatest scientist after Einstein. He was a key figure in the Manhattan Project; the inventor of game theory; the pioneer developer of the modern stored-program electronic computer; and an adviser to the top echelons of the American military establishment. In The Martian's Daughter , Marina von Neumann Whitman reveals intimate details about the famed scientist and explores how the cosmopolitan environment in which she was immersed, the demanding expectations of her parents, and her own struggles to emerge from the shadow of a larger-than-life parent shaped her life and work. Unfortunately, von Neumann did not live to see his daughter rise to become the first or highest-ranking woman in a variety of arenas. Whitman became a noted academic during the 1960s and '70s, casting her teaching and writing in the framework of globalisation before the word had been invented; became the first woman ever to serve on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and participated actively in U.S. efforts to reshape the international monetary and financial system during the early 1970s; pioneered the role of women on the boards of leading multinational corporations; and became the highest-ranking female executive in the American auto industry in the 1980s. In her memoir, Whitman quotes from personal letters from her father and describes her interactions with such figures as Roger Smith of GM and President Nixon. She also details the difficulties she encountered as an early entrant into a world dominated by men and how she overcame the obstacles to, in her words, ""have it all. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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