
Ananyo Bhattacharya — John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (EP.151)
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Von Neumann's Three-Value Model for Quantum Mechanics
Amitai Etzioni: When a genius comes into the world, a confederacy of dunces aligns against him or her. He says von Neumann came up with something that he wanted to present and hoped to make current in quantum physics. Unlike Einstein, who was quite worried about what quantum mechanics had to sayAbout reality and causality, von Neumann was relatively relaxed about it. ETzionis: I think he was more interested in the fact that the math works. And he wanted to make sure that it really did work.
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