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von Neumann's Life — One Man, Five Fields
From set theory and quantum mechanics to strategy, shock waves, and stored-program computers. The journey replaces the myth that one man created five fields with a more revealing story about extraordinary memory, translation between fields, collaborators, institutions, and wartime research.
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1903
Age 0
Budapest
A Budapest Child with Remarkable Memory
Family and colleagues repeatedly recalled remarkable mental arithmetic and memory from childhood. Fixed details such as calculus at eight and functional analysis at twelve are not supported by secure documentation.
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