Rocket engines and jet engines would not have been possible without the work I did on fluid dynamics with my good friend Robert D. Richtmyer, as we came up with an algorithm for artificial viscosity that helped greatly with the understanding of shock waves.
In addition, I was the first to explain weather systems with math, and I personally (with my team) performed the first numerical weather forcast in 1950.
Also, my theories and development on how computers are built (storing both data and program in the same address space in the computers memory) and how they do calculations (using pseudorandom numbers as opposed to completely random ones) lead to faster, more efficient, and better computers. This method is now called Von Neumann archetecture, and is still in use to this day.
(P.S: I also invented the first computer virus.)
Wow! I think it is incredible how your work has translated into these inventions that hold some of the largest influence on today's society. Knowing tomorrow's weather and using computers are such mundane inventions that most people now cannot live without, and its amazing to know that your work contributed so much to both of them.
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I think it is so interesting how your math related to and advanced so many things in our society that we still use today? I would like to learn more about the first computer virus you created. How strong was it? Are versions like it used today? What did it do?- Noy
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