Daniel and Jorge were kind enough to let me share an episode with you about John von Neumann. Hope you enjoy it!
John von Neumann made major contributions to multiple fields including computers, physics, mathematics, economics and statistics. He helped design the atomic bomb, created game theory, provided the architecture for the modern computer, pioneered the concept of mutually assured destruction and developed the foundation for quantum physics.
Daniel Whiteson, particle physicist and host of the show Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, joins me to describe the significance of von Neumann's work.
For more about his life, Stuff you Missed in History Class did an excellent episode on him.
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Introducing Prodigy: The Versatile Von Neumann

A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

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Listener Questions 54: String cosmology, cosmic strings, and alien numbers

Daniel and Jorge talk about real science of element 115 and whether it aligns with the spectacular story of anti-gravity alien ships at Area 51. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity?

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Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities

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Introducing Prodigy: The Versatile Von Neumann

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