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Von Neumann is “searching for absolute truth, and he really believed that he would find a mathematical basis for reality, a land free from contradictions and paradoxes.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
By the 1970s, Connes had made strides towards a complete classification of particular systems of operators known as Von Neumann algebras.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
Von Neumann extrapolated from the observed exponential rate of technological improvement to predict that “technological progress will become incomprehensively rapid and complicated,” outstripping human capabilities in the not-too-distant future.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
John Von Neumann was a prodigy and was a pretty normal guy except for the polymath type stuff.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
Through his boss at Birkbeck, JD Bernal, he got a six-month Rockefeller Scholarship to Princeton which he spent time talking to computer pioneer John Von Neumann.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2016
But real brains are not von Neumann machines, and forcing that comparison leads to shaky metaphors and fragile explanations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025
It was back in 1958 that the concept of "the singularity" was attributed posthumously to Hungarian-born mathematician John von Neumann.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
His latest is about John von Neumann, the Hungarian polymath whose work on the Manhattan Project led to breakthroughs in quantum physics that are still unfolding today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
As argued by John von Neumann in 1939, the number of such devices could increase exponentially with time if they self-replicate, a quality enabled by 3D printing and AI technologies.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022
We saw the story over and over again: computer programmer Klára Dán von Neumann was a pioneer in weather forecasting.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2022
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