MachuPikacchu on Nostr: John von Neumann [1] is certainly up there among the greats. His list of ...

John von Neumann [1] is certainly up there among the greats. His list of contributions to math, physics, and computer science is so long I won’t bother writing here but to name a few, he:
- formalized the math of quantum mechanics
- invented game theory
- invented cellular automata
- proposed the von Neumann architecture that powers today’s computers
- first to axiomatically define a Hilbert space
- first proposed quantum logic
- invented the Monte Carlo method
- invented the first pseudorandom number generator
- first to describe the technological singularity

I recommend reading “The Man from the Future” if you want to learn more.


1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann