Introduction

This is a disappointing book, not awful, but not good. The evidence doesn't bear out that von norman was qualitatively different from other geniuses. He seems to have frittered away his talents by never sticking with one field enough to make truly earth shattering contributions. And worst of all, the author wastes our time by endlessly trying to shoe horn into vor norman's story fantasy contributions by supposedly margin ized people who are unknown because they did nothing worth noting. This turns what might have been an excellent book into a chore.