Young John von Neumann

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Group Photo – Budapest, 1930s

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Institute for Advanced Study

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Neuman with Eisenhower

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Computer

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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

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Genera

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"The only student of mine I was ever intimidated by"
-Von Neuman's professor at ETH Zürich, George Pólya

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"He was really a remarkable man. He listend to me talk about this rather obscure subject [of my thesis] and in ten minutes he knew more about it than I did"
-mathematical scientist, David Blackwell

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" I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like Von Neuman's does not indicate a species superior to that of man"
-nuclear physicist, Hans Bethe

"The cleverest man I ever knew, without exception... a genius."
-mathemitican and man of letters, Jacob Bronowski

"The speed which Von Nueman could think was awe-inspiring"
-mathemitician, P.R. Halmos

"He had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem, seperate it into it's components, whereupon evrything looked briliantly simple, and all of us wondered why we had not been able to see through to the awnser as cleary as it was possible for him to do"
-chairman of the Atomic Energy Commision, Admiral Lewis Straus

"A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual aquantinces"
-theoretical physicist and mathemetician, Eugene Paul Wigner

"He was in the right place at the right time with the right connections with the right idea, setting asside the hassle that will probably that will never be resolved as to whose ideas they really were."
-Willis Ware, the fourth engineer to join the IAS Computer Project in 1946