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<blockquote data-quote="Fat Boss" data-source="post: 16991997" data-attributes="member: 122645"><p>I finally watched Oppenheimer. It's another in a line of great flicks from Nolan, but was pretty disappointed they didn't include Von Neumann in the movie. We studied him in a class in college call The Mathematics of War. IIRC, he was one of three people who could come and go from the Los Alamos Laboratory.</p><p></p><p>Von Neumann was truly brilliant. Though his specialty was mathematics (he was the world's foremost expect in game theory and linear programming), he had a better grasp of history than the professors at Princeton. He was also a bit of a party animal, routinely crashing his car around campus after a night of drinking. When he was on his deathbed from cancer, the Chiefs of Staff gathered to pick his brain one last time.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"Von Neumann was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy" target="_blank">child prodigy</a> who at six years old could divide two eight-digit numbers in his head<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#cite_note-24" target="_blank">[24]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchneiderGerstingBrinkman201528-25" target="_blank">[25]</a> and could converse in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">Ancient Greek</a>. When the six-year-old von Neumann caught his mother staring aimlessly, he asked her, "What are you calculating?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#cite_note-26" target="_blank">[26]</a>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fat Boss, post: 16991997, member: 122645"] I finally watched Oppenheimer. It's another in a line of great flicks from Nolan, but was pretty disappointed they didn't include Von Neumann in the movie. We studied him in a class in college call The Mathematics of War. IIRC, he was one of three people who could come and go from the Los Alamos Laboratory. Von Neumann was truly brilliant. Though his specialty was mathematics (he was the world's foremost expect in game theory and linear programming), he had a better grasp of history than the professors at Princeton. He was also a bit of a party animal, routinely crashing his car around campus after a night of drinking. When he was on his deathbed from cancer, the Chiefs of Staff gathered to pick his brain one last time. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann[/URL] "Von Neumann was a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy']child prodigy[/URL] who at six years old could divide two eight-digit numbers in his head[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#cite_note-24'][24][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchneiderGerstingBrinkman201528-25'][25][/URL] and could converse in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek']Ancient Greek[/URL]. When the six-year-old von Neumann caught his mother staring aimlessly, he asked her, "What are you calculating?"[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#cite_note-26'][26][/URL]" [/QUOTE]
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