/lit/ - Literature

>>23041600
interesting levels of christodalit schizophrenia
wasn't yeshua circumcized by tradition according to your scriptures? didn't you say askhenazis aren't related to them? are you then implying people like pic related are even less related to Europeans than yeshua's tribe in old Roman era Judaea was?

Not even close.

>he hasn't been trained from birth to manipulate symbols in his head according to formal rules
>he doesn't have aural instead of visual reasoning
Ngmi

CS Lewis

>>19569355
John von Neumann mogs him, though.
>When he was six years old, he could divide two eight-digit numbers in his head and could converse in Ancient Greek. When the six-year-old von Neumann caught his mother staring aimlessly, he asked her, "What are you calculating?"
>Von Neumann's father believed that knowledge of languages other than their native Hungarian was essential, so the children were tutored in English, French, German and Italian. By the age of eight, von Neumann was familiar with differential and integral calculus, but he was particularly interested in history. He read his way through Wilhelm Oncken's 46-volume world history series [in German], Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen (General History in Monographs).
>By the age of 19, von Neumann had published two major mathematical papers, the second of which gave the modern definition of ordinal numbers, which superseded Georg Cantor's definition.
>By the end of 1927 [at age 24], von Neumann had published 12 major papers in mathematics, and by the end of 1929, 32, a rate of nearly one major paper per month. His powers of recall allowed him to quickly memorize the pages of telephone directories, and recite the names, addresses and numbers therein.

*makes literally all previous philosophy irrelevant and worthless*

>>11433668
>limited to verbal intelligence
hmmm

>smartest man in history converted to Catholicism
>smartest person to ever convert to atheism was Sam Harris
really electrocutes the pistachios

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it's 100% von Neumann

not so much

>>9460629
>If we wanted to, we could construct a new mathematics where after 100, numbers roll over back to 0. Therefore, big numbers would be impossible. >We can codify this axiom with a combination of others that make arithmetic possible, and from there we can tease out the logical implications of such a system. The problem is, this isn't useful. What is this system going to help us describe? Is it going to show us something about the properties of numbers that we hadn't realized before? Probably not, considering I just chose this axiom arbitrarily.
This is your brain on liberal arts.

or the brain and writing ability of your favorite author

what is your choice?

name one continental philosopher on Von Neumann's intellectual level

Who are some real people who'd be considered Mary Sues/Marty Stus if they were fictional characters?

John von Neumann's an obvious one. Perfect memory, matchless genius, really nice suits. Contemporary of all the cool scientists like Einstein. Was also quite popular and outgoing.

What tools and methods are /lit/ polyglots using right now? Let's have another othe of these threads because I reached a glass ceiling with some entry-level techniques previously discussed here and am looking for the next step.

Pic related for inspiration. Based Vonnie N could speak 7 languages.

>>6180082
Oh look, i can also quote a scientist.

>"If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today. If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Known for

>Abelian von Neumann algebra
>Affiliated operator
>Amenable group
>Arithmetic logic unit
>Artificial viscosity
>Axiom of regularity
>Axiom of limitation of size
>Backward induction
>Blast wave (fluid dynamics)
>Bounded set (topological vector space)
>Carry-save adder
>Class (set theory)
>Decoherence theory
>Computer virus
>Commutation theorem
>Continuous geometry
>Direct integral
>Doubly stochastic matrix
>Duality Theorem
>Density matrix
>Durbin–Watson statistic
>Game theory
>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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