>In Princeton, von Neumann received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his gramophone, which distracted those in neighboring offices, including Albert Einstein, from their work.[55] Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its television playing loudly.[56] Despite being a notoriously bad driver, he nonetheless enjoyed driving—frequently while reading a book—occasioning numerous arrests as well as accidents.
Who will play him in the inevitable biopic?
In Princeton, von Neumann received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his gramophone...
Parker Green
Andrew Torres
Hesos Christos, Raimi
Logan Gutierrez
>During a Senate committee hearing he described his political ideology as "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm". He was quoted in 1950 remarking, "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"[143]
Yep, this one is going in my based collection
Jonathan Morgan
>In Princeton, von Neumann received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his gramophone, which distracted those in neighboring offices, including Albert Einstein, from their work
Chad as fuck
Jackson King
he accepted pascals wager at the end of his life
Camden Ward
well you never know i suppose.
Zachary Lee
>One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall. On one occasion I tested his ability by asking him to tell me how A Tale of Two Cities started. Whereupon, without any pause, he immediately began to recite the first chapter and continued until asked to stop after about ten or fifteen minutes.[200]
>Von Neumann was reportedly able to memorize the pages of telephone directories. He entertained friends by asking them to randomly call out page numbers; he then recited the names, addresses and numbers therein.
Ryder Jenkins
source?
Matthew Wood
>Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe said "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man",[19] and later Bethe wrote that "[von Neumann's] brain indicated a new species, an evolution beyond man".[187] Seeing von Neumann's mind at work, Eugene Wigner wrote, "one had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a thousandth of an inch."[188] Paul Halmos states that "von Neumann's speed was awe-inspiring."[18] Israel Halperin said: "Keeping up with him was ... impossible."
>Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim described von Neumann as the "fastest mind I ever met",[185] and Jacob Bronowski wrote "He was the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception. He was a genius."[194] George Pólya, whose lectures at ETH Zürich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of."
His entire wiki is just great to go through honestly
>tfw not perfect allele maximal phenotype
Colton Baker
Designer babies when?
Jack White
It's been pointed out there have only been a few thousand "true men", people who actually invent stuff to push society forward, and the rest of us are just trainable animals. Some of them are so smart they're basically feral people, being raised by kindergartners, or wolves.
Austin Bennett
Didn't Albert Einstein do his work by napping? He was a complete fraud.
Lucas Diaz
>In 1955, von Neumann was diagnosed with what was either bone or pancreatic cancer.[206] He was not able to accept the proximity of his own demise, and the shadow of impending death instilled great fear in him.[207] He invited a Roman Catholic priest, Father Anselm Strittmatter, O.S.B., to visit him for consultation.[18] Von Neumann reportedly said, "So long as there is the possibility of eternal damnation for nonbelievers it is more logical to be a believer at the end", essentially saying that Pascal had a point, referring to Pascal's Wager. He had earlier confided to his mother, "There probably has to be a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't."[208][209][210] Father Strittmatter administered the last rites to him.
Jaxson Morales
Eddie Murphy.
Christopher Walker
Too many notes
Eli Davis
Sounds like Rainman.
Benjamin Sanders
Cooper Morgan
>Sand nigger, an ethnic slur against Arabs, and timber nigger and prairie nigger, ethnic slurs against Native Americans, are examples of the racist extension of nigger upon other non-white peoples.[47]
Luke Gomez
When will we ever accept that nazis were just superior.
Think of the state of the world if the right side won ww2. We would probably be colonizing mars and beyond.
Asher Roberts
Yeah, I'm thinking he's based.
Anthony Bennett
He was not a national socialists.
And you wouldn't be colonizing Mars. You'd probably be aborted for the failure you are and wh*Te p*Ople would be dysgenic welfare queens. Socialism ruins society.
Justin Russell
cringe
Adam Jones
the last polymath, god bless his soul
Joshua Morris
I would totally watch a Von Nuemann biography. Unfortunately, he’d probably be played by Denzel Washington these days.
Samuel Mitchell
He also invented the stack-based computer model, which is still used today.
Daniel Ortiz
Von Neumann was ethnically a Hungarian Jew lmao
Adrian Young
>During his graduate studies, and after working with von Neumann, Gillies became a fan of the book "One-upmanship" by Stephen Potter. John von Neumann was also a fan of this work, and was extremely successful at impressing others with his intelligence. An apocryphal math problem asks about a bumble bee flying back and forth between two approaching trains, and how far did it fly before colliding? When von Neumann gave the correct answer, the questioner asked if he used a standard time/rate-of-travel trick, and he replied, 'no, I summed the infinite series in my head' to impress the questioner. This method of impressing and astonishing others appealed to both Gillies and von Neumann.
Nathaniel Bell
>At one point during his graduate studies, von Neumann found out that Gillies had been spending time working on an assembler (something that had not yet been invented). Von Neumann became enraged and told Gillies to stop work immediately because computers would never be used to perform such menial tasks.[3]
Brandon Brooks
>There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.
>The goys have proven the following theorem…
>The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
>I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.
was he, dare i say, /our guy/?