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An Inscrutable Intellect.
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- Author(s): Subramanian, Samanth
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New Republic. Apr2022, Vol. 253 Issue 4, p62-65. 4p. 1 Color Photograph.
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The article explores JUST AS THERE ARE von Neumann machines and von Neumann algebras, there are von Neumann anecdotes. Here's a wellworn favorite. Late in the 1940s, years after he left Hungary for the United States and became a lionized mathematician, John von Neumann met a group of Rand Corporation scientists who wanted to use a computer he'd helped design.
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