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Ananyo Bhattacharya — John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (EP.151)
Infinite Loops
The Manhattan Project and Von Neumann's Contribution to Open Source Computing
I'm fascinated by the breadth of this man's understanding, almost seemingly endless. And I get this tension when I read your book and other books that I've read about von Neumann. There's a tension between sort of the hyper rational von Neumann and then the von Neumann who drove his car reading a book or had wonderfully fun parties. Can you elaborate on that? It is difficult. His wife said at the end of his life, he was a mystery even to her, was destined to remain so. But it's quite clear that they were there.
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