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How did he perceive Humans? Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:28:52 2016 No.8339976 [DELETED]

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how did he perceive us regular humans, were we nothing but symbols and numbers to him?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:32:37 2016 No.8339982 Fellow creations of God.

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:43:24 2016 No.8340005
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>>8339976
>how did he perceive us regular humans, were we nothing but symbols and numbers to him?
How do you perceive your pet cat or dog?
I think of them as being similar to us but of inferior intellect.
Neumann was a God amongst mathematicians so we could as well be cats compared to him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:47:37 2016 No.8340012 >>8339976 He probably saw them as normal people, not as smart as him, but overall they were the same as him.

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:48:41 2016 No.8340015

They say that he would often talk to young children in the same manner that he talked to his associates (nobel laureates, top scientists of the field, etc).

This wasn't meant as an insult, but rather just an observation that he likely subconsciously did not significantly differentiate between the intelligence gap of a child and a genius scientist.

It just shows you how inconceivably more intelligent he was than a typical human.

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:49:56 2016 No.8340018

>>8340005
Honestly, I think he was one of these guys who liked to play tricks on people, to leave people wondering how he did it. Like in that story, he probably had already studied the guy's thesis, and discussed it with other experts.

I don't doubt that he was extremely intelligent. His work was excellent. But I think, like Feynman, he was a bit of a showman.

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:54:34 2016 No.8340027

When will the von Neumann meme die? 95% of the stories are probably bullshit and most of his contributions were mid tier at best.

Was he a great mathematician? Sure. Was he some kind of hyper intelligent god like comics book character with intellectual super powers? No.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:36:35 2016 No.8340449 >>8340027 >created game theory > mid tier fuck out of here

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:37:48 2016 No.8340453 File: 377 KB, 988x829, Von Neumann in his home.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >neumanlet spam thread its mr potatohead again

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:48:31 2016 No.8340466

Gauss was greater mathematician, Euler was greater mathematician, and we do not have such anecdotes of otherworldly abilities about either of them. I think there is some truth in this:

>>8340018

Also, it’s like has been already said: could Von Neumann have imagined what Einstein imagined? Could he write great poetry like Shakespeare (or even half as good as Shakespeare) or sculpt like Michelangelo, no matter how much he tried?

There are some forms of thinking that might not surprise us as extremely fast or extremely logical, yet if you face a Von Neumann or a Terence Tao with the challenge of creating the same they would not be capable of doing it.

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:04:36 2016 No.8340472

Stanislaw Ulam, a mathematician and close friend of Von Neumann, once said that they were in the showers after a playful session of amateur tennis, and that he got awe struck by the size of Von Neumann’s penis. He said: "Look, I've been in the Army, I've been in bathhouses, I've seen men. But I never saw nothing like him. He was built like a pony. Sometimes I ask myself if he was not of some different species that the rest of us ordinary humans."

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:06:11 2016 No.8340475 >>8340048 oy vey!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:12:24 2016 No.8340480 >>8340048 Have the jews always been like this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:14:10 2016 No.8340483 >>8340049 was it a joke? was it supposed to be funny?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:27:58 2016 No.8340500 >>8340472 Holy kek.

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