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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (Ananyo Bhattacharya)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Red Terror

As a child von norman was able to multiply large numbers in his head, read voraciously far above his age level and perform feats of memory. His parents aggressively fed his abilities, though his father was sceptical of mathematics as career. For norman's education progressed in the european style, excellent teachers, demanding schools. Still, world roy on did not touch the family in any meaningful way. What did touch the family was events after the war, in 19 19, when the communist regime of bala coon viciously implemented the standard reign of terror that takes place whenever any left group gains complete power. Bota chari gets most of the details of this red terror

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