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John von Neumann: The Man from the Future
Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story ab…
In the end, von Neumann was able to show that the coefficients of the expanded wave function were the elements that appear in the state matrix, in other words: they were fundamentally the same theory! Stanislaw Ulam, a friend and colleague of von Neumann, invented the Monte Carlo method of calculating probabilities using repeated simulations. In 1944, von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published the book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, which became a bestseller, despite weighing in at a hefty 1200 pages.
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