John von Neumann

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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One man and his incredible intellect affected so many different disciplines. From game theory to computers to the Manhattan Project, von Neumann and his remarkable abilities helped shape the 20th century.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowstuffWorks.com.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to the podcast I'm Holly Fry.
0:45.7	And I'm Tracy B Wilson.
0:48.0	And today we are going to delve into the life of a man who really shapes the world we live
0:52.7	in in very tangible ways.
0:55.4	And while he's quite well known in mathematics and physics and even economics,
0:59.6	circles, he's not as famous outside of academia as his contemporaries and colleagues,
1:04.5	such as G. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein.
1:08.7	We are talking about the Hungarian-American genius, John Von Neumann, and from pure mathematics
1:14.6	to applied mathematics to physics to game theory, he turned his intellect to many of the
1:19.9	projects that directly affected the course of the 20th century.
1:23.8	And that includes the development of the atomic bomb, as well as the first computers.
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