Ananyo Bhattacharya 
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann [EPUB ebook] 

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A Scientific American 2023 Staff Recommendation
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked,  man: John von Neumann.

Born in Budapest at the turn of the century,  von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. A child prodigy, he mastered calculus by the age of eight,  and in high school made lasting contributions to mathematics. In Germany, where he helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics,  and later at Princeton, von Neumann’s colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet—bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and the design of the atom bomb; he helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory; he created the first ever programmable digital computer; he prophesized the potential of nanotechnology; and, from his deathbed,  he expounded on the limits of brains and computers—and how they might be overcome.

Taking us on an astonishing journey,  Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through a stunningly diverse array of fields, sparking revolutions wherever he went. The Man from the Future is an insightful and thrilling intellectual biography of the visionary thinker who shaped our century.

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Ananyo Bhattacharya,  who holds a Ph D in biophysics from Imperial College London, has worked as a science correspondent at the Economist, an editor at Nature, and a medical researcher at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego, California. He lives in London.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 368 ● ISBN 9781324004004 ● Dimensione 24.1 MB ● Casa editrice W. W. Norton & Company ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2022 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7940828 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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