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And he was only -51-, correction, 53 when he passed… One has to wonder what more he would have accomplished had he lived another 30 years or more. As an aside,
by aeontech 6y ago
And he was only -51-, correction, 53 when he passed… One has to wonder what more he would have accomplished had he lived another 30 years or more.
As an aside, are there many pure research institutes left? It seems like academic life is now mostly spent chasing grants and managing teaching load, and very very few people get to do pure research.
- inasio 6y agoI heard or read a story from Freeman Dyson about a somewhat legendary conference where von Neumann was to present his version of Hilbert's problems, presumably about the new computing age, I think at the IAS. It was highly anticipated, but Dyson and everybody else present were shocked because von Neumann was in a state of advanced mental decline when he presented it, and people there agreed to pretend it hadn't happened. Sorry that I can't find a reference to it, the memory of it is vague.
- pbsd 6y agoThis is probably the story in page 220 of [1], beginning at "Von Neumann got into trouble at the end of his life because he was really a frog but everyone expected him to fly like a bird.". [1] http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/2009/dyson2009a.pdf http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/2009/dyson2009...
- exolymph 6y agoGreat read, thanks.
- inasio 6y agoThat was exactly it, thanks for posting the link!
- BlueTemplar 6y agoSo many brilliant ideas in so few pages !
- wslh 6y ago53 years old when he died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann?wprov=sfla1
- aeontech 6y agoOops, I must have misread, thanks, updated
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- peter303 6y agoMicroSoft Research,mGoogle Labs. Unclear if they have developed anything significant.