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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
Cellular automata
Class (set theory)
Computer virus
Commutation theorem
Continuous geometry
Coupling constants
Decoherence theory (Quantum mechanics)
Density matrix
Direct integral
Doubly stochastic matrix
Duality Theorem
Durbin–Watson statistic
EDVAC
Ergodic theory
explosive lenses
Game theory
Hilbert's fifth problem
Hyperfinite type II factor
Inner model
Inner model theory
Interior point method
Lattice theory
Lifting theory
Merge sort
Middle-square method
Minimax theorem
Monte Carlo method
Mutual assured destruction
Normal-form game
Operation Greenhouse
Operator theory
Pointless topology
Polarization identity
Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandom number generator
Quantum mutual information
Quantum statistical mechanics
Radiation implosion
Rank ring
Self-replication
Software whitening
Spectral theory
Standard probability space
Stochastic computing
Stone–von Neumann theorem
Subfactor
Ultrastrong topology
Von Neumann algebra
Von Neumann architecture
Von Neumann bicommutant theorem
Von Neumann cardinal assignment
Von Neumann cellular automaton
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 universe
Von Neumann conjecture
Von Neumann's inequality
Von Neumann's trace inequality
Von Neumann stability analysis
Von Neumann extractor
Von Neumann ergodic theorem
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
ZND detonation model

>>11260892
or better yet regenerative medicine that reverse aging. can we clone him, seriously?

>IQ of 190

Not bad. Not great, but not bad either. I mean after all there's always bigger fish.


>>11260894
I see he went for quantity over quality.

http://knowledgebase.ctmu.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Langan_CTMU_0929021-1.pdf

>On their first meeting, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's mathematical talent that he was brought to tears. Some of von Neumann's instant solutions to the problems that Szegő posed in calculus are sketched out on his father's stationery and are still on display at the von Neumann archive in Budapest.

I'd like to see these solutions.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Child_prodigy

People who died too young?

>died age 20 in a duel

>On their first meeting, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's mathematical talent that he was brought to tears.
>Some of von Neumann's instant solutions to the problems that Szegő posed in calculus are sketched out on his father's stationery and are still on display at the von Neumann archive in Budapest.

I'd like to see these solutions.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Child_prodigy

>>11260892
Clamped thinking. Unclamp. Expand.

>>11260892
>>11260910
These are the spookiest mathematician/scientist stories I know of. Von Neumann because he was vastly intelligent and worked on many things, and died early, and yet falls slightly below the absolute best like Einstein. Galois because he was outrageously intelligent and got killed right after dropping an earth-shattering theorem of algebra.

>>11260930
>and yet falls slightly below the absolute best like Einstein.

>>11260930
You keep forgetting the actual great one. Galois' stuff on algebraic group theory dwarf in comparison to Niel's.

>>11260892
i want to know how it feels like to be that smart

>>11260897
He didn't die of old age, anon. He died of cancer.

>>11260899
>this meme again

>>11260899
Von Neumann's IQ is likely WAY above 190. Based on his achievements, cognitive abilities etc I'd say there is no accurate measurement of how fucking smart that guy was.

>>11260930
>When he was six years old, he could divide two eight-digit numbers in his head[14][15] 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?

That last line spooked me. I was about to say that von Neumann's brain is the closest humanity has come to alien intelligence, and then I read this:

>Von Neumann entered the Lutheran Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium in 1911. Eugene Wigner was a year ahead of von Neumann at the Lutheran School and soon became his friend.[21] This was one of the best schools in Budapest and was part of a brilliant education system designed for the elite. Under the Hungarian system, children received all their education at the one gymnasium. The Hungarian school system produced a generation noted for intellectual achievement, which included Theodore von Kármán (born 1881), George de Hevesy (born 1885), Michael Polanyi (born 1891), Leó Szilárd (born 1898), Dennis Gabor (born 1900), Eugene Wigner (born 1902), Edward Teller (born 1908), and Paul Erdős (born 1913).[22] Collectively, they were sometimes known as "The Martians".[23]

>Leó Szilárd, who jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars, used this term. In an answer to the question of why there is no evidence of intelligent life beyond earth despite the high probability of it existing, Szilárd responded: "They are already here among us – they just call themselves Hungarians."