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Great Mathematicians · Modern

John von Neumann

Perhaps the fastest mind of the 20th century: foundations of quantum mechanics, the minimax theorem and game theory, the implosion design of the atomic bomb, the stored-program computer architecture, Monte Carlo methods, and self-replicating machines.

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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War Dwarkesh Patel · 55 min
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Prereqs: Turing; Nash. Next: Claude Shannon. Sources: Ananyo Bhattacharya's *The Man from the Future* (2021), Norman Macrae's *John von Neumann*, von Neumann & Morgenstern (1944), the 'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC' (1945).
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