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I'm not sure if there ever existed a man as ahead of his time as Von Neumann.
by c3534l 7y ago
I'm not sure if there ever existed a man as ahead of his time as Von Neumann.
- carapace 7y agoDa Vinci? Bucky Fuller? Legend has it that when Gödel presented "On the Completeness of the Logical Calculus" von Neumann threw in the towel (on Hilbert's program) on the spot.
- michele_f 7y agoThank you for your comment. I didn't know that anecdote.
- carapace 7y agoCheers! What I find fascinating is, he was the only person in the room to understand immediately. Even today, most people (and I mean mathematicians and programmers and others who might be expected to get it) still haven't internalized Gödel.