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Von Neumann's accomplishments?

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WTF did he actually do or is just a meme
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>>8329588
singlehandedly saved the world from russian domination

is there any point in going on?
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Known for:

Abelian von Neumann algebra
Affiliated operator
Amenable group
Arithmetic logic unit
Artificial viscosity (a numerical technique for simulating shock waves)
Axiom of regularity
Axiom of limitation of size
Backward induction
Blast wave (fluid dynamics)
Bounded set (topological vector space)
Carry-save adder
Cellular automata
Class (set theory)
Decoherence theory (Quantum mechanics)
Computer virus
Commutation theorem
Continuous geometry
Direct integral
Doubly stochastic matrix
Duality Theorem
Density matrix
Durbin–Watson statistic
Game theory
Hilbert's fifth problem
Hyperfinite type II factor
Ergodic theory
EDVAC
explosive lenses
Lattice theory
Lifting theory
Inner model
Inner model theory
Interior point method
Mutual assured destruction
Merge sort
Middle-square method
Minimax theorem
Monte Carlo method
Normal-form game
Pointless topology
Polarization identity
Pseudorandomness
PRNG
Quantum mutual information
Radiation implosion
Rank ring
Operator theory
Operation Greenhouse
Self-replication
Software whitening
Standard probability space
Stochastic computing
Subfactor
Von Neumann algebra
Von Neumann architecture
Von Neumann bicommutant theorem
Von Neumann cardinal assignment
Von Neumann cellular automaton
Von Neumann constant (two of them)
Von Neumann interpretation
Von Neumann measurement scheme
Von Neumann Ordinals
Von Neumann universal constructor
Von Neumann entropy
Von Neumann Equation
Von Neumann neighborhood
Von Neumann paradox
Von Neumann regular ring
Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory
Von Neumann spectral theory
Von Neumann universe
Von Neumann conjecture
Von Neumann's inequality
Stone–von Neumann theorem
Von Neumann's trace inequality
Von Neumann stability analysis
Quantum statistical mechanics
Von Neumann extractor
Von Neumann ergodic theorem
Ultrastrong topology
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
ZND detonation model
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>>8329610
imagine being so smart that you can look at any subject and find something new and important to add to it virtually over night
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Kittie out, /sci/ is daunting task endevor.
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>>8329613

would you say he is one of the top 50 mathematicians of the 20th century?
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>what did he do
everything
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David Blackwell when talking about his thesis

"He (von Neumann) listened to me talk about this rather obscure subject and in ten minutes he knew more about it than I did."
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>>8329623
top50 of all time
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>>8329610
This, holy shit tho
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>Von Neumann architecture

He did not design the Von Neumann architecture. He visited UPenn and inspected an already functional computer with this architecture. He then wrote a report describing it, and abstracting it somewhat from the exact implementation.
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>>8329588
On the other hand he got brain cancer in his 40s.

Clearly there is something wrong with high intelligence.
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>>8329789
>brain cancer
>While there is a general agreement that the initially discovered bone tumor was a secondary growth, sources differ as to the location of the primary cancer. While Macrae gives it as pancreatic, the Life magazine article says it was prostate.
Wiki.
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>>8329623
he's often rated as ~10th greatest mathematician of all time, and very likely one of the smartest people to ever live, if not the smartest.

considering only raw intellect/potential, he's probably far above even newton.
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>>8329610
>explosive lenses
wat
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>>8329867
for nuclear warheads

neumann was pivotal in many aspects in the cold war
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>>8329862
>one of the smartest people to ever live, if not the smartest.
>von Neumann
>smarter than Einstein
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>>8329888

implying Einstein was smart
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>>8329888
>Be Einstein
>Take ten years to make a theory
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>>8329588
He was a super-human. We should clone him desu.
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>>8329610
Good job copying and pasting from Wikipedia
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>>8329938
So what?
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>>8329879
you mean lenses for viewing atomic explosions?
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>>8329960
>you mean lenses for viewing atomic explosions?
Are you legally retarded?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_lens
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>>8329798
>the Life magazine article says it was prostate.
neumann confirmed wizard saving his mana
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>>8329960
i had no clue what they were either lol

not even sure what neumann did with them but it was apparently a big deal and required for the development of the bombs
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>>8329649
he was the first to implement a computer with it though
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he was a genius
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>>8329888

u better be trolling with the Einstein meme.
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>>8329610
90% of them are entirely based on other researchers and mathematicians hard work. Von Neumann didn't do shit.
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>>8329588
gtfo
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>>8330638
mathematicians build up on other mathematicians

doesn't mean he didn't do shit
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>>8330667
Writing your own name after someone elses work is called fraud, thats why Neumann got never popular. Whoever spamming these neumann threads should get used to that fact.
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>>8330638
+1 for the effort
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>>8329588
Claiming he didn't accomplish anything is the new latest unfunny /sci/ meme.
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>>8330672
>d-dont you insult my waifu
ahahahahahaha
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>Von Neumann's accomplishments?
Literally nothing worthy
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>>8330670

Everyone in science then is a fraud.
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>>8330670
Love when contrarians spout their contrarian memes with zero evidence.
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>>8329588
Neumann is the literal meme-person. Same tier as Jacob barnett and Wildberger
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>>8329967
I guess he didn't have much time to masturbate.
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>>8330750
he has married with children. he was neurotypical.
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>>8330763
sure it was his children ;)
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>von Neumann's daughter was a former member on the "Steering Committee" of the Bilderberg Group

what does it mean
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>>8329904
>>8329907
> implying you're smarter than einstein
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>>8330894
If he is so smart, why is he dead?
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>>8329613
I do that all the time. Immediately see something and know it better or have a complementary idea to make it complete.

Unfortunately I'm surrounded by morons who either don't understand or are jelly.

Among them:
>inspired by surreal numbers, I invented absurd numbers;
>I wrote an automatic theorem prover in PHP, my rationale was that most proofs run into combinatorial explosion and when we use a slow language the explosion happens later;
>the Pitrowski Set is named after me (that is the set of natural numbers between 3 and 33 -- nobody claimed that set for themselves so I did it) and I intend to commercialize it by charging license fees from everyone who uses numbers from it;
>I invented the Pitrowski Probe, that's like a von Neumann probe, just painted red to warn people about the presence of a self-replicating space probe.
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>>8329588
FUCK

OFFFFFF
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>>8331252

This.
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>>8329588
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>>8331252
BOOM. Roasted.
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>>8331752

I invented my own set called the "Bourbinski set" consisting of the set of all numbers divisible by 8 whose successor is not a prime. This is relevant to the "Bourbinski topology", which is the Zariski topology except better.

This is all in addition to my contribution to the theory of prime numbers, wherein I use Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes to derive the very important corollary that there are at least 412 primes.
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he was a genius 10fold
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>>8331252
can he ever recover ?
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>>8329938
umad, idiot?
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>>8329588
You can see the obscure nature of autism in his eyes
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>>8329610
>pointless topology

Is there any other kind?
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>>8333799
lol
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>>Von Neumann also claimed to prove that deterministic “hidden variables” cannot underlie quantum phenomena. This influential result pleased Niels Bohr and Heisenberg and played a strong role in convincing physicists to accept the indeterminacy of quantum theory. In contrast, the result dismayed Albert Einstein, who refused to abandon his belief in determinism. (Ironically, Irish-born physicist John Stewart Bell demonstrated in the mid-1960s that von Neumann’s proof was flawed; Bell then fixed the proof’s shortcomings, reaffirming von Neumann’s conclusion that hidden variables were unnecessary.

von Neumann BTFO by a mick
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>>8329588
>his living heir is a dentist
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>>8329610
What a memeing fucking Jew.

>>8333806
kek
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>>8333806
BROH
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>>8333806
Topologies make everything easier. The usual theorems on R^n are cumbersome without them.
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>>8331252
GET SHREKT
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>>8329938
Its what op should have done to begin with, doof
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>>8329610
A few of this are bullshit,
>Pointless topology
Grothendieck was the one doing this stuff, he just gave the witty name.
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>>8336559
>Grothendieck was the one doing this stuff, he just gave the witty name.
>just
>Grothendieck born in 1928.
>Neumann dead in 1957.
Prove it.
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>>8330693
He's likely the largest contributor to the existence of the home computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Early_von_Neumann-architecture_computers
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>>8334495
>John Stewart Bell
ulster man. basically scottish, like kelvin
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he was a perfect example of ashkenazi jewish brilliance
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