Von Neumann's ability to instantaneously perform complex operations in his head stunned other mathematicians...

>Von Neumann's ability to instantaneously perform complex operations in his head stunned other mathematicians.[158] As a 6 year old, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head.[159] When he was sent at the age of 15 to study advanced calculus under the renowned analyst Gábor Szegő, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's talent in mathematics that he was brought to tears on their first meeting.[24]

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>The Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe speculated: "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man".[17] Eugene Wigner wrote that, seeing von Neumann's mind at work, "one had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a thousandth of an inch."[160] Paul Halmos states that "von Neumann's speed was awe-inspiring."[16] Israel Halperin said: "Keeping up with him was ... impossible. The feeling was you were on a tricycle chasing a racing car."[161] Edward Teller admitted that he "never could keep up with him".[162] Teller also said "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."[163] When George Dantzig brought von Neumann an unsolved problem in linear programming "as I would to an ordinary mortal", on which there had been no published literature, he was astonished when von Neumann said "Oh, that!", before offhandedly giving a lecture of over an hour, explaining how to solve the problem using the hitherto unconceived theory of duality.[164]

>Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim described von Neumann as the "fastest mind I ever met",[158] and Jacob Bronowski wrote "He was the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception. He was a genius."[165] George Pólya, whose lectures at ETH Zürich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he'd come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper."[166]

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Wasn't he a complete retard outside of math though?

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>overrated kike Mathematician hyped up with made up stories by his fellow kikes

Sure, he was good, but come on.

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If he was so smart, why is he dead?

>glorified calculator
>thinking that makes you good at math

lol who gives a shit if he could multiply and divide really fast

But he was indeed good at math.
You missed the whole thread.

Too bad he got cancer from watching a nuclear test

This is a great thread

not at all
he even impressed a byzantine historian by knowing more about his subject

>a kike invents the ((())) 50 years before the Age of Veeky Forums
You literally can´t make this shit up

Lol, you /pol/tards hate jews so much that you refuse to accept genius when it stares you in the face. I remember a discussion on /pol/ about how "kikes only parasite off whites and they've never contributed anything to science", using Nobel Prizes as proof that only whites have contributed to science. When another /pol/tard informed him that Jews are massively over-represented in science and the Nobel Prize awards, then suddenly the Nobel Prize committee was "full of kikes and kikery", even though he just used that as proof that whites were superior and only whites contribute to science.

When you read discussions like that, it's very difficult to take anyone who uses any /pol/ memes seriously, even if they're joking. The boys over at /pol/ don't seem particularly bright, to say the least.

Lol, those goyim

>von neummanlet

anyone thats hung up on race and culture is a brainlet

So Jews are brainlets.

This. It's no wonder/pol/ is the most stupid board.

I wonder how they feel when they come to Veeky Forums and not understand the contents of any proper threads. They must feel bad. So to feel better they resort to stupidity, since that gives them comfort.

>"lol i'm too smart to care about race"
>native birthrates plummet
>immigration rates skyrocket
>population gets replaced by sub 100 IQ retards with backwards beliefs within 50 or so years
>Your daughters are raped and your sons are killed and your race dies out

BUT AT LEAST YOU WEREN'T RACIST

why does Veeky Forums meme the fuck out of this guy?

>gaps in his knowledge, most notably, number theory
brainlet confirmed

Lol, I guarantee you that I would beat Von Neucuck in an IQ test ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. I can divide two 10-digit hexadecimal numbers in my head and I was recommended to go to university a year early. I'm kind of disappointed that Veeky Forums fawns over this baby-brained cuck. I guess you're all much, much stupider than I thought (and I already thought you were pretty stupid).

Yay Onions :D

Big fuckin whoop, I bet I could beat 6 von neumanns in a fight

>tfw none of us will ever be as smart as him

why live bros

FIGHT ME FAGGOT I COULD TAKE 16 EINSTEINES AND ONE VON NUEMANN

How horrifying
>move somewhere else because your skills are in demand around the world
Problem solved. Or are you not intelligent enough to be a rootless cosmopolitan?
White genocide isn't real, but if it were, it would be well deserved.

Oh yeah? When I'm done with von Neumann even Hawking would pity him.

You guys talk big but you aren't doers... see, let me actually wreck von Neumann:
He believed in GOD.
Yes, that's right, this smarty-pants believed in the sky daddy.
There, I just destroyed this nincompoop and demonstrated my superior intellect.

FFFFFFFFFLLLLLIIIIIP MY FEDORA UP SENPAI

He grew up Catholic, went full fedora but then pussied out and rejoined on his deathbed.

… But Einstein’s understanding was deeper even than von Neumann’s. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann’s. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of von Neumann’s brilliance, he never produced anything as original.

–Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize Physics 1963)

Challenger arrives. Probably Von Neumann level.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Pitts

>move somewhere else because your skills are in demand around the world

Every white country suffers from multiculturalism.
>White genocide isn't real, but if it were, it would be well deserved.
The jew is strong with this one.

Because they hate hearing that someone has gotten where they are by being smarter or working harder than them. It makes them feel inferior

This

An expert in Chemistry, Byzantine History, and Yiddish Jokes.

>As a 6 year old, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head.
20,000,000/10,000,000 = 2
GUYS

False. This isn't Jacob Barnett.
>sage

>implying i can't be a well armed vigilant asshole without being racist
>implying im not pumping every white girl (and brown) with my high iq baby batter (yeah, im brown - guess which race!)

What did he mean by this?

Seriously, I want to know (and I don't think it'd be something as simple as function iteration or a choice function).

Kek

>"I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man
>Literally called New Man

rekt

>#roasted

Inferior to Hilbert and Banach, who cares

fucking howling

>Inferior to Hilbert and Banach, who cares
You just discovered Functional Analysis didn't you?

I love Neumann but for some reason this quote makes me feel uncomfortable

At the least the kike doesn't pretend to be anything else.

>the greatest mind of the 20th century was ruined by a woman that was jealous because her husband was paying more attention to his student than her

What do you think the outcome would be of Neumann being born a millennial surrounded by social media addicted normalfags in today's shitty public schools? Let's face it. The 20th century and earlier were full of genius workaholics for a reason.

>native birthrates plummet
Indigenous?

von Neumann BTFO

You believe staring at flashing blue lights cause ADHD? Because I do.

This prove he was honest.

What book are this from?

Checked.
>this quote makes me feel uncomfortable
Rightfully so.
>They received the name from a fellow Martian Leó Szilárd, who jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical
Steven G. Krantz

old white women are the worst pieces of shit

Thanks user

HA! GOT 'EM

me when i choose to hit the blunt over studying for passion

>tfw smart but lazy.

I think there are a few modern mathematicians at von Neumann's level (in no particular ordering). This list is of mathematicians (of recent times) which possess "super intelligence". Meaning something you'd expect from a super-intelligence. Not a human.

-Kurt Godel
-Walter Pitts
-Ramanujan

>In 1955, von Neumann was diagnosed with what was either bone or pancreatic cancer. He invited a Roman Catholic priest, Father Anselm Strittmatter, O.S.B., to visit him for consultation. Von Neumann reportedly said in explanation that Pascal had a point, referring to Pascal's Wager. Father Strittmatter administered the last rites to him.[16] Some of von Neumann's friends (such as Abraham Pais and Oskar Morgenstern) said they had always believed him to be "completely agnostic."[176][178] Of this deathbed conversion, Morgenstern told Heims, "He was of course completely agnostic all his life, and then he suddenly turned Catholic—it doesn't agree with anything whatsoever in his attitude, outlook and thinking when he was healthy." Father Strittmatter recalled that von Neumann did not receive much peace or comfort from it, as he still remained terrified of death.

Ramanujan definitely, not sure about the other two

The other two most certainly.

Even Von Neumann considered Godels contributions to be more important than his

Also, keep in mind Logic during Godel's time was very fashionable mathematics of the time. He took one of the hardest open problems in the field and solved it. Not many mathematicians could fully comprehend his proof. Turing, Church, Godel had exceptional talent and their results revolutionized the field of logic and what would later become theoretical computer science.

>tfw dumb and lazy

Turing was exceptional at sucking cock

Pretty sure he pioneered game theory far before Nash.

So why is he not more famous?

>sucking cock
A subject you are the foremost expert in.

>never accomplished anything meaningful
>Veeky Forums relentlessly polished his knob

>game theory
That's pretty meaningful. Where would Dr. Strangelove be without such a diabolical calculus to decide WWIII strategy?

Was Von Neumann the result of an experiment?
Like they MONARCHd him when he was a child and then gave him cancer because they couldn't control him anymore?
He almost brought us into a nuclear war.

He's just so cool

Talent is a meme

What did he mean by this?

All I'm seeing is that Weiner made Nuemann