Fortress of Logic.

HAPPINESS; LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL simplification; TIME perception; HUMAN behavior

Similarly, the institution that employed von Neumann (as well as Einstein, Kurt Gödel, and numerous others who people Bhattacharya's pages) from 1933 until his death in 1957 appears in the book primarily in envious caricature ("the Institute for Advanced Salaries") or as an obstacle to von Neumann's more applied ambitions. Which is simply to say that in addition to explaining and even celebrating the powers of von Neumann's logic, The Man From the Future might also have pointed out that in many important aspects of his thoughts and desires, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is not von Neumann's axiomatized man, and neither are we. This is most evident in his treatment of von Neumann's pioneering work in the social sciences, the 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, written in collaboration with the economist Oskar Morgenstern. UNLIKE HIS MUCH MORE FAMOUS COLleague Albert Einstein, John von Neumann is not a household name these days, but his discoveries shape the possibilities of life for every creature on this planet. [Extracted from the article]

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