Gecertificeerd John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More – Norman Macrae

This volume is the reprinted edition of the first full-scale biography of the man widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the century after Einstein. Born in Budapest in 1903, John von Neumann grew up in one of the most extraordinary of scientific communities. From his arrival in America in the mid-1930s – with bases in Boston, Princeton, Washington, and Los Alamos – von Neumann pioneered and participated in the major scientific and political dramas of the next three decades, leaving his mark on more …