Ananyo Bhattacharya — John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (EP.151)
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The Man From the Future Is a Biography and Not a Biography
"I felt quite intellectually burn out after writing it so I am they might brain back in order by writing a kid science fiction novel at the moment" "My money-making schemes are not as good as von Neumann's. It's like rightly a book about an obscure 20th century mathematical genius and then write a science fiction novel neither of which is generally a short five money spinning schemes" He says he likes this notion of unpicking science we tend to imagine the great geniuses of the past as sitting around and then suddenly bush an idea sort of pops into their head out of the etho maybe just God gave it to them.
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