The Martian's daughter : a memoir
Mathematician John von Neumann was one of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues. 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 American military establishment. In this memoir, his daughter reveals details about her father 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. She became a noted academic during the 1960s and '70s, casting her teaching and writing in the framework of globalization 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 major multinational corporations; and became the highest-ranking female executive in the American auto industry in the 1980s
Print Book, English, 2012
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2012