Frederick Bernard de Neumann (known in

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as ''Bernhard von Neumann''; (15 December 1943 – 18 April 2018) was a

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, and

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. He was educated at the

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and

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, and was Professor of Mathematics at The City University. He was a descendant of Johann Andreas von Neumann, nobleman of the

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, 29 March 1797, and of Johann Heinrich von Neumann, nobleman of the

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, 20 January 1824.

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, 2005. ''Prof Bernard de Neumann – The Mathematician''. 2005 Ondaatje Prize-winning portrait of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. * ''Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern immatrikulierten Adels'', Vol XXII, 1998, p. 681, Degener Verlag. Neumann family.

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Prize for mathematician portrait
— BBC News, 26 April 2005.

— London Mathematical Society Newsletter 1943 births 2018 deaths 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians British computer scientists British inventors British naval historians Von Neumann family {{Europe-noble-stub