The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann

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Smartphones, nuclear warheads, moon bases, computers . . . all bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest in 1903, he moved to America in 1930 and-in his work as mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer-became one of the most influential scientists of the century. Von Neumann was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and the design of the atom bomb, he helped formulate game theory, the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory, he created the programmable digital computer, he prophesized the potential of nanotechnology, and, from his deathbed, he outlined a vision of artificial intelligence. In telling the story of Von Neumann's life and ideas, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and historical circumstance allowed one man to sweep through so many different fields of science, sparking revolutions wherever he went. The Man from the Future is a thrilling biography of a visionary thinker who shaped our time.