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Ananyo Bhattacharya

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2022-05-11

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1. “Well, that's not an easy task, but I'll give it a go. So he was born in Budapest in around 1903 to this wealthy Jewish family. And pretty early on, they realized that there's something quite special about him. So he can do these long six-figure calculations in his head by six. And he's learnt calculus by eight and he's teaching himself the finer points of set theory by kind of 11. So he's going on long walks with Eugene Wigner, who was a childhood friend of his and a future Nobel Prize winner. And Wigner is a year older than him, and he's teaching Wigner set theory at that age. So it's kind of clear that even”

   2022-05-11 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “I try to lay out the context of this. I mean, this was after the most destructive war that the world had ever known. Millions of people had died. And von Neumann had predicted this and the Holocaust very successfully years in advance and he now was convinced that within a decade there would be a third world war with nuclear weapons.”

   2022-05-11 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source