/sci/ - Science & Math

I probably have made billions of threads about this man, people on here have talked about him for ever


but the man just endlessly fascinates me, how the fuck could someone like him actually exist

Von Neumann actually did alot of great math achievements

he is pretty much the founder of modern Game Theory, Cellulat Automata (with Ulam)

he might of not been the creator of the "von neumann architecture" but was the main advocate

he was the first to mathematicize quantum mechanics

dude was a genius,alien intellect

So is pure mathematics the subject that you guys idolize the most?

Finally an explanation for this guy's superintelligence. Turns out that he couln't remember faces. That means that our capability for recongizing faces must take a lot of processing power for the brain, and Neumann just used that extra processing power for other things.

https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=BDC6VOVzHykC&pg=PT174&lpg=PT174&dq=john+von+neumann+%22remember+faces%22&source=bl&ots=sWI9y15nce&sig=NzE9-f7qTSEyH4D8osGrrvaAQIk&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUgobi2o7UAhXG6yYKHY76DlEQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=john%20von%20neumann%20%22remember%20faces%22&f=false

why did he never discover something deep and profound as Einstein did

did he have a completely intelligence than Einstein?

>John von Neumann converted to Catholicism
>Bill Nye is an atheist
huh... really arouses the thought process...

Von Neumann-Morgenstern Representation Theorem (1944): Everything is a spectrum.

Proof: Let S and T be any two things. To assist in visualization we assume [math]S \neq T[/math]. Then we have a spectrum [math] \mathcal{L}_{S,T}: [0,1] \to \psi_{S,T}[/math] where each [math]\phi \in [0,1][/math] maps to the thing [math] \matahcal{L}_{S,T}(\phi) \in \psi_{S,T}[/math] that is S with probability [math]\phi[/math] and T with probability [math]1-\phi[/math].

Notice that this spectrum is still well-defined even if [math]S = T[/math], i.e. they are the same thing. Furthermore, this thing is equal to [math]\mathcal{L}_{S,T}[/math] up to a canonical isomorphism, and hence it is a spectrum. But since our choice of things was arbitrary, we conclude that everything is a spectrum.

>>8862362
Gotchu op.
Shift cipher forward one space --> VGWWGA
Translate characters accordingly.
W-->'G', G-->'O', A-->'T', V-->'F',

>you aren't as smart as von Neumann

What is the point of even trying? I feel like a brainlet just looking at him

What does /sci/ think of geniuses like this guy?

>perfect recall (could read a book once and recite it word for word)
>at age 6, could multiply and divide 8-digit numbers in his head
>brought his tutor, Gábor Szegő, to tears with his mathematical ability
>contributed to a shitload of fields: mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics
>Von Neumann was so bright that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner would say, “only he was fully awake.” He had “the fastest mind” that economist Paul Samuelson had ever encountered and was “the cleverest man in the world” according to head of Britain’s National Physical Laboratory, as noted by Daniel Yergin in “The Quest.”

Why even bother trying to contribute to science or mathematics when there are ubermenschen like this walking around?

Also, I find it interesting that over half of the ultra-geniuses in the world are Jewish.

Oh shit it's true

Do you think we have reached the point at which non-geniuses are incapable of making meaningful contributions to the hard sciences and mathematics? By genius, I mean 145+, not some abstract definition. Do you think that Feynman would just be a nobody prof at some U-State if he had been born in the late 80s?

The Higgs Boson was discovered 5 years ago. Not much has come of it. A brainlet with billions of dollars in funding and giant accelerators is still a brainlet.

>>8736843
>implying they don't exist

when did you finally learn to accept that chad always wins and there's really nothing you can do about it?

Hard work won't give you something so valuable that even billionaires can't have it, god tier genetics.

You really can't blame women for wanting to be inseminated by chad, a single of chads sperm is worth more than a trillion of mine and yours.

I feel overwhelming defeat when i look at hi eyes and realize that from his perspective i am no different intellectually from a chimp at the zoo.

>John von Neumann
>He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.

Seems like specialization is the name of the game. These days you can be a theoretical physicists but have no understanding in basic electronics and how to solder a wire, or vice versa you can be an electrical engineer but doesn't know how electron propagates through the wire nor numerically solve an ordinary differential equations

>>8638162
>South East Asia

1) Get a fucking map
2) Ramanujan was literally babby tier compared with pic related

>>8579401
>[citation needed]

smartest man of all time, to ever live, in any time period, john von neumann, was a right wing republican

230+ IQ, 100% perfect eiditic memory, saved the world from russian nuclear domination, created the computer architecture we all use today, made a billion discoveries in math and science, and on and on and on

remember the quote "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today?" guess who said that.

have a nice day :6)

>>8580544

First step is to be this guy.

There's no second step.

>>8577569
>>8577604

Explain this then.

Protip: You can't.

Also:

> Using Euler and Tao as examples of not having to be born a genius to excel.

>>8573188

A lot of it is just practice, and you can get really far by working on it, though there will always be people who would have done it much faster and much better than any of us ever could (pic very much related).

>>8570823

This guy agrees.

Except he was a master of all trades and not just a lowly jack.

he was brilliant, but has no accomplishments...

i mean is he really on the same level as someone like Einstein

Why is Einstein more fawned-over than this superior genius? Is it because he had more hair?