The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remar…

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