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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
Dwarkesh Podcast
Was Von Norman a Genius, or a Whiz Kid?
Von norman had taught himself integral and differential calculus by the time he was ten. He resolves this incredibly difficult and paradox in insect theory, helps to resolve it by aof 22. And then he goes to a gertigen where quantum theory is being invented by another whiz kid, actually, verne heisenberg. Of course, he's just a year older than von norman. And von norman gets really interested in quantum mechanics, and he and produces first mathematically rigorous version of ita a few years later.
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