The Scientist Who Invented the Future

Highly recommend Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography on John von Neumann:
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Future-Visionary-Ideas-Neumann/dp/1324050500
Please check out the book in the above link - you won't be disappointed.


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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Childhood
1:20 University years
2:20 Unifying quantum mechanics
3:23 Invitation to America
4:34 Nazi Party rises to power
4:56 Life in America at the Institute for Advanced Study
5:36 Worries about looming war in Europe
6:14 Marriage and divorce
7:00 Developing the atomic bomb
9:34 Developing the early computer (ENIAC and EDVAC)
11:50 Game theory and nuclear deterrence
15:00 Self-replicating machines and later life
15:58 The future
17:08 Sponsor, Brilliant

Special thanks to the Institute for Advanced Study for supplying many of the photos of John von Neumann in our video: https://www.ias.edu/

Select images sourced from Alamy and Associated Press

Sources:
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Way in Budapest: xorge, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
University of Budapest interior (three images): Thaler, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1930s images of Nazi Germany:
Gas chamber at Auschwitz: Paul Arps from The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
ENIAC image from University of Pennsylvania (real life): By The original uploader was TexasDex at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Andrei Stroe using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6557095
Minneapolis federal courthouse: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
John von Neumann gravestone: Antonio Giovanni Colombo, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ via Wikimedia CommonsWalter Reed Army Medical Center: By Antony-22 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96210593Fortune magazine article, “Can We Survive Technology?”: https://fortune.com/2013/01/13/can-we-survive-technology/

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