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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann

Bhattacharya, Ananyo

Paperback

Biographies GeneralSports GeneralGeneral Mathematics

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1324050500
ISBN13: 9781324050506
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Feb 21 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann.

Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. A child prodigy, he mastered calculus by the age of eight, and in high school made lasting contributions to mathematics. In Germany, where he helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics, and later at Princeton, von Neumann's colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet--bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and the design of the atom bomb; he helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory; he created the first ever programmable digital computer; he prophesized the potential of nanotechnology; and, from his deathbed, he expounded on the limits of brains and computers--and how they might be overcome.

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