The Scientist Who Invented the Future

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[@HelloBro-qr4he]

Ma'am can you make videos on Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov , Edward teller and Hans bethe because there is no videos on them instead of some 1 hr biographies

[@jancsi-vera]

Margaret Elaine Hamilton

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Grigori Perelman

[@TUMSEKUDAH6ONE]

Gyyy

[@PlanetSaturnClub]

@planetsaturnclub

[@artdehls9100]

"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us." - Edward Teller

[@numbersix8919]

Teller was a sad son of a bitch but I give him full credit for this astonishing truth.

[@honor9lite1337]

Von Neukingg 😮

[@sonicmaths8285]

lol

[@mamusichmilan7729]

I am a Hungarian living in Hungary. Von Neumann was the neighbor and mentor of my maternal grandmother's kid brother. He became a physicist and an electrical engineer and a university professor.

[@istantinoplebullconsta642]

Would that make him your granduncle? Also, that sounds like Six Degrees of Separation theory.

[@JoeRogansForehead]

So your uncle

[@squamish4244]

@@JoeRogansForehead Great-uncle. But the guy's talking in his second language, so...

[@ptrkoranyi318]

i am Hungarian in USA, cousin just died who was mentored by Von Neuman at Princeton..chemistry

[@mamusichmilan7729]

@@istantinoplebullconsta642 The theory of six degrees of separation was invented by the Hungarian writer Frigyes (Frederick) Karinthy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

[@ConfucianScholar]

If you visit the wikipedia article on von Neumann look at the part that lists his contributions. The list is ridiculously long and includes many fields, such as Economics, multiple fields of engineering, military science, physics, chemistry, biology and social science.

[@honor9lite1337]

Got you 😮

[@abdusalamolamide]

Very long.. That guy's brain was just too big.

[@petergibson2318]

I have always been in total awe of John Von Neumann. John Von Neumann and Leonardo da Vinci were two humans whose mental abilities bordered on the Super-Human.

[@saliksayyar9793]

Vinci did not advocate mass killing.

[@primenumberbuster404]

​@@saliksayyar9793 Vinci designed early military Tanks

[@sonicmaths8285]

@@primenumberbuster404 still doesn’t mean that he supported it (from an ideological perspective)

[@coolasf1527]

@@saliksayyar9793 vinci pretty big on couple of military weapon

[@FernandoWINSANTO]

google ; the scientist Martians

[@dgillies5420]

My father did his PhD with von Neumann as his thesis advisor in 1953. Von Neumann was brilliant but importantly, he never missed a chance to impress people around him, just for the heck of it ... One of his favorite humor books (which von Neumann took deadly seriously) was called, "The art of one-upmanship" about outdoing those around you ....

[@itscooldawgdonteventrip]

that guy was in a class of his own. I watched a documentary on him. He was sad when he could no longer do that things that he loved the most: Think. ( when he was closer to death and his brain was attacked. )

[@MrBlaDiBla68]

Wow, as a computer science major, I knew about his work in that field. But I did not know the full expanse of his knowledge and scientific contributions.

[@cabbytabby]

His “exceptional skills in mathematics”? I’m sensing an upcoming a Brilliant ad read! 😊

[@keerthisagar6560]

Great inspiring videos. My go to podcast everytime I go for a walk !

[@Newsthink]

You’re amazing, thank you so much!!

[@keerthisagar6560]

@@Newsthink thanks to you!! Please keep making the videos!!

[@witvrouwmanuel80]

Always appreciated your videos. Thank you.

[@Newsthink]

Thank you Witvrouw, I really appreciate it!

[@simplyme5324]

I design verification protocols for quantum networks. They are the foundation for the so hyped quantum internet and have applications all over quantum computing. What I use as fundamentals and did not derive myself comes directly from Von Neumann - his density matrix formalism. And again, whenever quantum computing is concerned, those old principles from long ago still hold. Mathematics is immortal. I don't know how often the old stuff reappears in my daily life. I can read papers from the 1930s and they are still as relevant and accurate now as they were back then. I love understanding the fundamentals of the systems and machines that I use and control. Understanding a computer in the last detail, down to its very last bit and using symmetry to make the algorithms more efficient. Old stuff rarely gets old and so many ideas coming to fruition now are truly old in their core.

[@anonymoushuman8344]

His proof of the completeness of quantum mechanics turned out not to prove what he thought it did, though. Or so they say.

[@UHyperZero]

Its so wonderfully amazing that you did this very comprehensive video about him! As for him not appearing on Oppenhiemer movie will forever remain a mystery for all of us!

[@AdvantestInc]

Fascinating overview of John von Neumann's contributions! His impact on computing and mathematics is truly unparalleled.

[@laulaja-7186]

Nice, I see what you did there... The famous Von Neumann Bottleneck only being solved decades later by development of "parallel" computing.😆 Von Neumann computers are in that sense…. “unparalleled.”

[@QAYWSXEDCCXYDSAEWQ]

Its surprising that hollywood has never made a movie about him; although watching this that attributes so many different fields, where would you start or indeed end?

[@gideonterer7818]

They can't....what he did is mostly hard stuff that can't easily be dumbed down for the masses

[@carrickrichards2457]

British scientists were involved in building the shaped charges to Neumann's design and my dad helped with the microswitches that timed their detonation to the necessary precision. Secrecy prevented open acknoweldgement but the specs were specific enough to be telling. Eniac developed separately from Bletchly Park's superior Collosus, developed by Tommy Flower under Max Newman (not to be confused)

[@mickwilson99]

IMHO this is a really good series - no woo-woo clickbait, good research and delivered professionally.

[@ivlivs.c3666]

I came here after watching your recent video "Why So Many Great Scientists Come From Hungary." Loved both of these videos. Just subscribed :)

[@lynnfisher3037]

Including the man from Lugosh

[@AashutoshYadav-yv3xk]

One time a teacher wrote an unsolve problem on blackboard and after five minutes johnny raise his hand and gave answers with detail correctly thats shows his computational speeds and that teacher himself was one of the greatest mathmaticians of his time

[@gerardjones7881]

yeh that was me , i don't like to talk about it.

[@slashifyu1453]

yh sorry guys this is my little brother he often tries to be me 😂😅​@gerardjones7881

[@faisalsheikh7846]

Finally someone recognize him ❤

[@theastuteangler]

what do you mean "finally"? he is well recognized.

[@kiuk_kiks]

He’s extremely well recognised as the smartest man in history.

[@bladekiller2766]

​@kiuk_kiks ask a random person on the street whether he knows von neumann, 0% he will know. Ask who is einstein, and everyone will blurt out the "smartest man". So would you still say that he is recognized?

[@solivagant1170]

@@bladekiller2766Well, that goes for every scientist who’s not named Newton or Einstein. The general public is simply very ignorant of brilliant scientists, but among those in scientific circles or computer science von Neumann is very well known.

[@ef9307]

And his awful ducking driving 😤

[@BobStein]

16:00 I downloaded that 1955 Fortune article "Can we survive technology?". But it does not seem to include the quote "The problems of the future of humanity...". Where did you get that quote? It's a very good quote, and I would like to read what he wrote before and after.

[@BobStein]

Oops, it's possible my version of the article was truncated, so I missed that quote. A non-paywall source would be appreciated if you have it.

[@allengreg5447]

His death is believed to almost certainly have been caused by the inhalation of several milligrams of U-235 while working on The Manhattan Project. X-Rays taken showed lines radiating outwards from a small central point in one of his lungs. Also, bone cancer has only two primary causes: 1. Syphilis and 2. Internal radiation. It is extremely unlikely he had syphilis.

[@quasarsupernova9643]

von Neumann's most impressive contribution was to show how numbers can be thought of as sets. I still find that staggeringly brilliant..

[@jimparsons6803]

Back in the day, several of my Profs were in a habit of praising von Neumann.

[@simpleventures]

Thanks!

[@Newsthink]

Thank you so much for your support, you’re amazing!

[@mr.boomguy]

Sound like a man who lived to his fullest potential, even when his life was cut short

[@panathaninf]

Excellent documentary! Thank you!

[@sdutta8]

The first, stored-program computer was developed at the University of Manchester, England, not at UPenn.

[@petergibson2318]

With the "Von Neumann Architecture." (Even Nvidia's AI chips use it even though the memory SEEMS, at first sight, to be embedded within each one of the millions of CPU-cores.)

[@Parssel]

I remember in my late teens when I was (in the UK) a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), I knew that Bertrand Russell was one of the founders of CND. I was already interested in philosophy so when I saw a collection of essays in a second hand shop by Russell, called The Unpopular Essays, I bought it. In an essay called ‘The Future of Mankind’ he advocated for the United States to use nuclear weapons to overwhelm the USSR before they could develop their own nuclear weapons (which would lead to nuclear proliferation and increase the chance of a much more destructive nuclear war in the future). Once the Russians actually did develop the bomb, of course, this cold logic no longer applied and he changed his position entirely. I only say this to show that von Neumann was responding to the situation at the time in a way that many highly ethical thinkers were. Russell fleshed out his political ideas further in the essay by adding that the US, after defeating the USSR, should develop a world government, backed by the US’s preeminent military, to ban the proliferation and further development of nuclear weapons. The stakes were very high. Now, of course, they are much higher.

[@fractal_gate]

Ordering Jews out of acedemia is as smart as ordering blacks out of sports.

[@Jasalexander-vv2uw]

Ordering blacks out of sports wouldn't be so bad - whites dominate MMA, currently the best light heavyweight and heavyweight boxers are white, tennis is all white, the best soccer players are white, the bests winners are white, and the best strongman are white.

[@markharder3676]

Implosion was not von Neuman's idea. Seth Neddermeyer first suggested it. It was shelved for a bit, then resurrected. Johnny was brought in later for doing theoretical modeling and computation required to design the compositions and shapes of the explosive lenses.

[@GilesMcRiker]

Actually, implosion was suggested by Tolman in 1942 and later explored by Serber. Neddermeyer leader led the implosion team with inconsistent results until Von Neumann and others developed a workable mathematical model

[@PlanetSaturnClub]

Recently discovered your channel... thanks for your detailed videos... not sure if you already did a video on this because theres so many videos still need to explore on youtube but if you are wondering what to do for future videos... I would love to see videos about CERN which is the major scientific organization in Switzerland... I first learned about CERN from reading one of Dan Brown's novels... and while Dan Browns books are fiction-ish.... CERN is a very real and mysterious scientific organization. 🎉🎉🎉

[@Josue-fh2ky]

I love your videos, everything from the topics to the music to the visuals! Keep up the great work! Who does your editing, and do you have any recommendations on how to find a quality editor for an aspiring KZbin creator?

[@magmasunburst9331]

Johnny is not a form of a name given often to highly respected distinguished historical individuals unless it's something that others during his lifetime referred to him as. Is there any history of this?

[@andrewhall7930]

These videos are fantastic. I'm super into Polymaths (geniuses in multiple fields, i.e. Nicola Tesla) Neuman is one of my favorites. If you dig Wikipedia articles look up the list made by Chinese Polymat Su Song. It rivals Johnny's list.

[@erikhouston]

It was Teller that inspired Dr Strangelove

[@nishandesilva1844]

I knew of his contributions to computing and Computer Science. I did not know he advocated first strike against Russia. It seems he was a mad genius.

[@jamgill9054]

Just found the channel. Now this is interesting!

[@musicarroll]

Paul Halmos once remarked that if Von Neumann had done nothing more than prove the Ergodic Theorem, that would have been enough to earn him immortality in the pantheon of mathematics.

[@dayroncpilotop]

Mrs, your talent, and your narrative, are mesmerizing😮👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@laulaja-7186]

Did he really accurately foresee so many geopolitical developments of his era? Amazing. Maybe his collected writings should be studied more. In particular, it would be interesting to know his thinking in choosing Nagasaki.

[@EayuProuxm]

It's amazing how many scientists were absolutely convinced that if they developed and showcased a powerful enough weapon, their enemies would back enough and peace would be achieved.

[@allanshpeley4284]

That's exactly what happened. We've never seen another war on the scale of WW2.

[@eaglexjasteryt]

A persons becomes a scientist when jupiter is appeased and every kind of convenience we have today is due to science and technology which is developed by scientists so jupiter is the most powerful astrological planet.

[@mateenahmed1283]

its seems that a great deal of effort has been spent in composing this work. Your knowledge across multiple fronts and the sheer motivation you must have sourced to acquire it is truly interesting. Apart from journalism, what pushes you to learn and explain such vibrant concepts seamlessly?

[@jimsmedley234]

As the wise and brilliant Danish mathmatician, Piet Hien, observed: When people always try to take the very smallest piece of cake How can it also always be that that's the piece that's left for me?

[@eaglexjasteryt]

When i was in class 10th my mercury was afflicted due to which i spoke self destructive things saying that science and technology was not the reason behind the transformation and development of the western world and its domination on the world while this is a fact and it cant be denied that everything the world is today is due to science and its just science and technology which has given us all the convenience and comfort we have today

[@daviddeshazo5183]

Awesome stuff. I wish more people would push themselves to learn new things.

[@gbernardwandel4174]

You write well Your voice narration works wonderfully Any possibility of losing the backing music I can’t concentrate with it playing I couldn’t finish it

[@Newsthink]

Is the issue with the selection of music or the fact that it exists? Or the volume? I find it’s too dull without music.

[@gbernardwandel4174]

@@Newsthinkthe fact that it exists Since it’s your video, if you think it’s dull without it you do you. I’ll just bow out gracefully and listen elsewhere Thanks for the response it’s nice to be acknowledged even if we disagree

[@revenant2979]

A good documentry always has background music. I think it might be to do with the other side of the brain or keeping one's focus like in a Movie Movie, but not so important as Zimmer in a Nolan movie.

[@gbernardwandel4174]

@@revenant2979 we’ll have to agree to disagree on what qualifies as “a good documentary” and whether or not they “always have” background music As for movies, yes, there is music but usually not start to finish so in most cases the majority of the dialogue and action do not have music and music is used to “pepper” the dialogue and augment the scene. I know movie music composers personally and they in most cases get to watch cuts and fit their music to fit the mood . Your version of a “good documentary” that always has background music appears ad hoc and almost haphazard. Not optimal for creating a mood. I also do not want my learning science brain to be engaged emotionally like “good movie music “ is designed to do. There is a science to that and a very long history of what composers did to for instance evoke a fear response for their audience. I know, no fear response here. However for those of us who prefer to enjoy music separately from learning dialogue it puts us in a stage of multitasking. Again, there’s a whole history of the allure of multitasking but most of the data concludes we are incapable of doing it fully. Arguably on the average a female brain can switch faster than the median male brain but the switching does not mean that anyone is doing true multitasking. Fear not, I realize you, a lot of others, and even the creator has a preference to having it which means I won’t be listening here. I made a request, and for reasons that suit others it was declined. I will put on my grown up boy pants and go elsewhere. I do not like being told what a “good documentary” has by someone who does not know what my preferences are and what my learning style is Enjoy yourself kind revenant2979 perhaps you might wanna consider a little more reverence for those who are not like you Anon

[@rumsbymusic]

Another great video 👏🏻

[@Aaron-xn7dg]

He didn't convert to Catholicism on his deathbed, he converted to Catholicism in his late 20s and remained so until his death receiving last rites.

[@TheJmkovacs]

Nope, he was baptised in 1930.

[@Aaron-xn7dg]

@@TheJmkovacs I wrote his late 20s not the late 20s

[@solivagant1170]

Yeah, but wasn’t that to appease his Catholic fiancé before marriage? I think he reconverted or something on his deathbed.

[@TheJmkovacs]

@@solivagant1170 Say it, he felt obliged to convert. It was his business, not ours. Stop all this nonsense of Jews vs non-Jews, implying one is better than the other.

[@Aaron-xn7dg]

@@solivagant1170 this doesn't make sense because none of the women he married were Catholic, he converted because he saw it as the truth

[@markhughes2556]

Apparently Von Neumann was walking down a corridor at - I want to say Princeton but I'm not sure - and was approached by a student who showed him a complicated integral expression. VN glanced at it and said "the solution is 2/5pi". The student yes, "Yes Sir, I know, the answer is on the back. I just don't see h o w to solve it" He looked again and gave the same answer. The student - quite rightly, really - complained that he hadn't shown him h o w to solve it. VN replied, "I've already solved it for you using two different approaches - what more do you want?"

[@thanos879]

I'm TERRIFIED of geniuses. People whose capabilities surpassed mine when they were mere children.. They probably know my every move before I even make it. They can probably calculate every possible thought I could have in a given situation before I'm even finished with my one thought. Diabolical. I say this because I do this to others and I'm not a genius.

[@k6freshcash]

Damn, chill Guy All along 💯🙌

[@vincentzevecke4578]

Me too, thinking is number one, over everything

[@fluffykitties9020]

except for wasting time on youtube, apparently.

[@vincentzevecke4578]

@@fluffykitties9020 you do not who I'm, ok. Can you do algebraic geometry, Ricci flows. You have not. Clue what their ok

[@vincentzevecke4578]

@@fluffykitties9020 anytime, you.think that you are smarter than me, Come fuck down, ok go here say lol, ok

[@anonymoushuman8344]

Why did KZbin automatically play this video after the one I was watching even though I wasn't in a playlist, like it was an ad? Does KZbin just automatically play stuff now that its algorithm predicts we should like?

[@petergibson2318]

Turn off "Autoplay"...that little slider with the 2 vertical bars at the bottom of your KZbin screen.

[@anonymoushuman8344]

Autoplay was off and the video started automatically anyway. This has happened a couple of times. It might be an issue with my phone.

[@lakshmikanthpadayachi508]

Awesome video 👍🏼

[@artisnalmetallurgist3168]

WOW SHE KNOWS HOW TO TELL A STORY

[@timtruett5184]

Are you joking?

[@timtruett5184]

The narrator's voice is computer generated, and I strongly suspect that the script was generated by an AI.

[@atul58]

V in von is pronounced as F in German. So it is phon not von.

[@josephpiskac2781]

Neat truly brilliant Thank You!

[@ggvlog8236]

Nice topic.

[@ronnysanjaya6823]

Jhon Von Newmon was very famous almost in any literutur .

[@TriPham-j3b]

Civilization is the material science

[@LoanwordEggcorn]

Thanks for a superb history.

[@TriPham-j3b]

Connection by geometry rather than connectors nor ahersive like snap on , linkage rather than cements or glue or screw , nut bolt ect

[@neo21e1]

Good documentary learned a lot, great quality, and excellent presentation of the information - just a note small detail- you didn’t pronounce Catholicism correctly when you explained the religion Von Naumann converted to at the end of his life.

[@smartdoctorphysicist3095]

Hi first good program, I don't have that kind of money to brush up on my math, I have to find old math book and do the problem to reach the level of Mr. Neumann; I do have a MS. I need all the help I can get my hand on. Thank you

[@djallalnamri1]

Time is not really divided into PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE: it is a continuity that only sleep or THE LITTLE DEATH cuts. just as what men call "genius" or "inspiration" is a direct effect of the structure of the nervous system as well as the language that men manipulate and that it also manipulates them in turn. no one is born a scientist and not all become one either: learn, acquire, listen, see, steal, spy, embezzle, disguise, etc, etc, ... without this in one way or another affecting the Truth above everyone and everything. All these people died and Time, past-present-future combined, continued to flow.

[@LazarusAugment]

meth iz bad bro

[@misganake]

Thank you for this. Your videos are consistently amazing.

[@ziton-man6453]

This video lowkey changed everything I thought of this man damn

[@greenviolist34]

Game theory is essentially the mathematical proof that cooperation will result in the best outcome for everyone. The people of the Marshall Islands STILL haven't gotten justice for these bomb tests. "Bravo for the Marshallese"

[@aawebmanagment]

Thank you again!

[@coscinaippogrifo]

OMG! I too used to have a car accident per year (before I stopped driving), and I too used very similar ways to describe them! Maybe I'm a genius and I never realised it!

[@michaelblankenau6598]

You are undoubtedly a genius . Because that is the one benchmark that can not be faked . Congratulations !

[@ziton-man6453]

Von Neumann literally hailed as the smartest in like everything he does, so I keep hearing, and yet his model of quantum mechanics is the least popular, it amazes me lol

[@adespade119]

I wonder if it would ever be possible for Hollywood to do real justice to these intellectual giants, The man who knew infinity was pretty decent,

[@Jonttu12345678910]

Nice video again

[@buddhikaruwan5708]

The little boy with the sailor costume is william james sidis (greatest child prodigy of all times with an IQ of 300)

[@1vootman]

Another Jewish kid

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

That number is actually meaningless.

[@solivagant1170]

Doesn’t mean much when ultimately it’s about the intellectual feats accomplished by your brain. Feynman only having an IQ of 125 achieved much more.

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

@@solivagant1170 The reality is, in past decades, IQ’s have been quoted for various individuals who NEVER took an IQ test. These numbers are best guesses based on vague indicators. Newton, Ben Franklin, Einstein, Tesla are given numbers that are ridiculous. A “high IQ” really means that person scored well on the types of thinking the test preparer was evaluating. Einstein was an entirely different type of thinker, as were Feynman, DaVinci, etc. Newton, Liebniz, etc. Many perform well, like Marilyn vos Savant, but do nothing with their “supposed intelligence.” Differential Aptitude tests prepared by those with highly developed aptitudes in specific areas are better evaluations of a mind’s powers.

[@ziton-man6453]

The fact that he's lecturing us on his death bed about being good and evil while being the literal devil incarnate is the summarization of this guys entire fucking life. Sad.

[@roberttelarket4934]

No he did not convert to Catholicism at his death bed! He did so years earlier in Germany as Universities required at that time to be a Christian to get a professorship.

[@robertlight5227]

Von Neumann reminds me of Churchill eerie premonition. "I fear a new dark age made more terrible and bourn to us on the gleaming wings of perverted science." All of us are good and evil. VN was, by the extremity of his genius, both astonishingly good and profoundly evil.

[@rdyer8764]

One of your best and most informative videos. Thanks for your great work!

[@malnaai6467]

Very interesting character of history. Very. can only imagine how much more he would have come up with if he lived a lil longer

[@Boss54894]

Very good video

[@ronaldrenearmstrong9872]

VON NEUMANN HAD PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY HE COULD BE ASKED THE QUESTION WHAT WAS THE PAGE OF YOUR 6TH GRADE BOOK PAGE NUMBER, PARAGRAPH, SENTANCE AND REMEMBER IT ALL.

[@solivagant1170]

Not photographic, you’ve gotta read a few biographies of his. He’d only have exceptional if he’d focused very attentively on it, say a book, as he was reading it but he was notoriously bad with names for example.

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

Smart and interesting, yet not benevolent man. And he's got somewhat lucky in life (not unlike many others), as there is plenty of talented people who never rise to fame.

[@MeschKaiser]

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[@MeschKaiser]

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[@SierraLindeen-pi9we]

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[@MeschKaiser]

No I don't trade on my own anymore, I always required help and assistance

[@MeschKaiser]

From my personal financial advisor

[@jose_ramos_7]

Please make one video about Ed Witten

[@faisalsheikh7846]

Yup I agree with that too

[@nickyzzz5]

It’s incredible the brilliance of the jewsish people, askenazi jews in particular! ❤❤❤

[@williambarr3551]

John von Neumann very tragically died young, comparable to the loss of Mozart dying young.

[@michaelblankenau6598]

Well since Von Neumann lived almost 20 years longer than Mozart it’s not quite the same .

[@AleksanderNevskij47]

John von Neumann, what a monster!

[@roberthayter157]

Wonderful, informative video, but please don't use the word "exponentially" as an adjective that means "a lot". Von Neumann was a mathematician and exponential means that something doubles (or halves) at equal intervals.

[@petecefa8443]

Ettore Majorana was the brightest of them all.

[@Geminialis]

Neumann had the complete package , like Tesla...

[@hypercube717]

I admire this man.

[@gregycalbert589]

All Mathematicians know he was the very greatest thanks for doing this story

[@Newstatejournal1]

Excellent!

[@llicit1833]

Listened to the audiobook about him (The Man from the Future) on Spotify

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

According to his philosophy thank god he didn't work in a bio- lab.

[@boltvalley3076]

Well my friend like this

[@Lordwilmore-o4j]

although von Neumann was a brilliant scientist - but he seems to be lacking in certain moral qualities - one thing i read about him was that he preferred to be with people who came from rich background and had certain bias towards lower class citizens - not to mention the utter disregard for civillian life in bombing cities through atomic bomb - he also took credit for ideas of mauchly and eckert and conveniently forgot to give them credit for their role in computer architecture - certainly not the behaviour of a good person

[@glenn07777]

The store program architecture was clearly Eckerts' idea. Neumann simply justified it on paper by invoking previous Turing's work on the so-called universal Turing Machine. He tried by the way to allure Turing to stay in Princeton but for some reason the last run back to England once he saw some things. But it was not only that. Detonations? In England they had already solved most of the problems by 1942 and the Americans send him there in 1944 to be educated by G. I. Taylor and come back with all the perks. Quantum Mechanics? The work was done by Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Jordan and others. He mocked Dirac's work esp. delta functions in his book but it was this work that prevailed among physicists and it was proven right in the 50's by Schwartz. His "proof" on hidden variables was characterized by Bell as ridiculous. If you look very closely and carefully in his 5 volume "Works" (Pergamon Press) he never did something genuinely new but always stepped in other peoples work and overtake it as if it was his. He even tried to pull the same trick with Godel but he couldn't.

[@Dagestanidude]

​@@glenn07777 so are you saying he was a fraud?I mean he clearly had genius mind, no?

[@glenn07777]

​@@DagestanidudeNo, he was not fraud, definitely no. I'm just saying that his thought was not genuinely new as it was the case with e.g. Dirac, Godel, Heisenberg, Einstein, Hilbert, Turing, Schrodinger, Feynman, Zermelo and so many others. His economic model? Take a look at the review by D. G. Champernowne in The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1945 - 1946), pp. 10-18 and see for yourself that it was a knock off from minimax. Nobody took it seriously. Later on, Solow's model paved the way for much more realistic models. His work on Hilbert-space- description of classical mechanics was based solely on a clever observation of Koopmans who saw that observables on a classical system are measurable functions on its phase space and the flow of the underlying dynamical system acts linearly on their space -hence the Hilbert space structure. And oh boy, he was good in Hilbert space theory as he was an aid of Hilbert himself. Ergodic theorem? Birkoff's was more general and came few months earlier than his and then he complained that Birkoff have stolen it (!) Game theory? Minimax theorem yes, it was his, but game theory? Morgenstern said that they met lots and lots of mornings in a country club for months trying to interpret economically the notions of imputation and stable set. And nobody cared. Core, kernel, nucleolus and the like are much more realistic. Utility representation theorem? Definitely his achievement but nobody managed to use it effectively. Is it a power to some a

[@Portents-Magic-imagination]

@@Dagestanidudebuilding on other peoples theories isn’t being a fraud. The problem is not giving credit to those upon whom your work is built.

[@krox477]

What do you want a perfect person?

[@ReadWriteBlu]

I couldn't find the little clay (woman in woman) pottery. I though I changed universes.

[@EinsteinsHair]

Russian nesting dolls, or Matryoshka dolls