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| | With unique and outstanding achievements in mathematics and science, John von Neumann was on an intellectual level far above us; the oft-misused term genius truly applies to him. Von Neumann, brilliant in both pure and applied mathematics, was a towering figure of 20th century science. As a child, he demonstrated a prodigious memory and computational...
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| | Philip Ball's Beyond Weird is the best popular survey I've seen of the contemporary state of discussions about the "interpretation" of quantum mechanics. It appeared earlier...
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| | Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story about a mathematical problem I remember from many years ago. After reading it, I understand what a genius he was,...
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| Rob Spekkens is a theoretical physicist who works on the foundations of quantum mechanics, which means that he thinks a lot about the meaning of experiments in quantum mechanics: what experiments a...