
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (Ananyo Bhattacharya)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Von Norman's Lifelong Tendency to Bounce Around
Von norman wrote his first mathematical paper relatedg to set theory at 17. Then he moved to germany, to gertengen, an important research center for mathematicians. There, he met werner heisenberg and evolved himself in early development of quantum theory. He ended up doing quite a bit of work, albeit not full time, for the manhattan project,. The plutonian bomb, fat man used shape charges. It was fanoy men who discovered the nuclear blasts maximise destruction, though not fall out if air burst. And he continued defense work until his death.
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