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By the age of six, he could exchange jokes in Classical Greek, memorize telephone directories on sight, and display prodigious mental calculation abilities. As a 6 year old, he would astonish onlookers by instantly dividing two 8-digit numbers in his head, producing the answers to a decimal point. By the age of 8, he had attained mastery in calculus.

>> No.4372514

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

Known for all this shit.

/sci/, why are you worshiping Sagan and not Neumann?

>> No.4372522

Because everyone here is a fucking idiot including you

>> No.4372524

>>4372514

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them; the former are effortless faggots.

- Shakespear

>> No.4372532

>>4372522

Sir, I am a logician, particle physicist, chemist, biologist, psychologist, and electrical engineer. I have published over 9000 peer-reviewed articles and created oxygen and math.

>me
>idiot

>> No.4372536

because neumann didn't care to do anything other than maths. that makes him worthy of worship to some people, but not to others and especially me.

also, we don't worship sagan; we worship feynmann and jacob barnett

>> No.4372537

And obviously enough he was jewish.

>> No.4372546

Why should I worship an autistic savant? At least Sagan is somebody you could smoke a doobie with.

>> No.4372553

By the age of 19 he had dropped out of college twice, by 21 he-

oh wait that's me

>> No.4372559

>>4372553

Hey, me too! I'm 22 now, thinking about going in for round 3 but I think I'm just going to drop out again.

>> No.4372561

>>4372553

holy shit are you me?

>that feel when you ace all the tests but you end up dropping the classes because you're too lazy to do the bullshit assignments

>> No.4373112

>>4372536
>because neumann didn't care to do anything other than maths
>a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to a vast number of fields,[1] including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, geometry, fluid dynamics, economics, linear programming, game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics, and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields

All he did was math, yo

>> No.4373123

>>4372536
Von Neumann studied and made a ton of stuff, including the motherfucking hydrogen bomb. You clearly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, which means you're either a kid or a troll. Since you mentioned jacob barnett, I can safely conclude that it's the latter, thank god.

>> No.4373375

>>4372561
>That feel when you're a lazy idiot who thinks he is entitled because he was born smart but will never actually succeed

>> No.4373395

>>4372524
>implying he was born with the knowledge of calculus.

It's too late for us here on 4chan to do this kind of stuff, but we can always do great at our current level.

>> No.4373416

>>4372510

>Von Neumann, Einstein, Ulam, Teller, Newton, etc. were the finest minds man has seen.

>> No.4373435

are you implying that that's not all math?

>set theory
math
>functional analysis
math
>quantum mechanics
math
>ergodic theory
math
>geometry
math
>fluid dynamics
math
>economics
math
>linear programming
math
>game theory
math
>computer science
math
>numerical analysis
math
>hydrodynamics
math
>statistics
math

>>4373123
he studied the math that dealt with the hydrogen bomb. he did not personally manufacture it, and may have had an insignificant role in managing the project. your projection is invalid

>> No.4373501

>>4373435
>science
math

>> No.4374055

>>4373435
>implying the math isn't what really matters