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Nice article. Are there any good biographies of John von Neumann that are highly recommended? EDIT: found it at the end of the article " For anyone interested
by j7ake 7y ago
Nice article. Are there any good biographies of John von Neumann that are highly recommended?
EDIT: found it at the end of the article
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For anyone interested in learning more about the life and work of John von Neumann, I especially recommend his friend Stanislaw Ulam’s 1958 essay John von Neumann 1903–1957 in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 64 (3) pp 1–49 and the book John von Neumann by Norman Macrae (1992).
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- SamReidHughes 7y agoApparently there are none. Judging by the Amazon reviews of Macrae, I’d pass. I found some other discussions of the question: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/36ipik/good_biography_about_john_von_neumann/ https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/36ipik/good_biography... https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-biography-book-about-John-von-Neumann https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-biography-book-about-Jo...
- jorgenveisdal 7y agoI tend to agree, but Macrae isn't bad.
- chmaynard 7y agoThe author posted a reading list: https://medium.com/@JorgenVeisdal/reading-list-5d3018266f7d https://medium.com/@JorgenVeisdal/reading-list-5d3018266f7d
- rainwolf 7y agoI highly recommend "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson. I easily rate it n+1 stars out of n.
- davidwihl 7y agoThe Martian’s Daughter written by his daughter who was also an intellectual. https://www.press.umich.edu/4655298/martians_daughter https://www.press.umich.edu/4655298/martians_daughter Given the success of “The Imitation Game” and “The Theory of Everything” I’m disappointed that no one has made a compelling movie about Von Neumann who I think is a far more interesting character both mentally and in terms of personality.
- jonjacky 7y agoThere is this dual biography from 1980: John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener : from mathematics to the technologies of life and death by Steve J Heims https://archive.org/details/johnvonneumannno00heim https://archive.org/details/johnvonneumannno00heim Here is a review by John McCarthy: http://jmc.stanford.edu/artificial-intelligence/reviews/heims.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/artificial-intelligence/reviews/heim...