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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 29, 2023 23:17:21 GMT
No one beats this guy in the mental department. We think of Babbage and we think of Allan Turing when talking about the invention of the computer, but we do not use the computers they invented. We use Von Neumann machines. The very thing you read this on has a CPU, and in that CPU it has a data and address bus, an ALU, various registers, a program counter, and addressable memory array. All of this came from this guy's mind. The computers we rave about as the invention of computers, like the first British ones were not even binary, but counted in base 10. The idea of a universal computer that can run any program is from Von Neumann. But, it does not stop there. That's just his contribution to computing. We also have the maths, physics and the chemistry as well. This is a film made by the Mathematics Association of America 1966. This was the time it features was when America was on top of the game and growing fast in the technical sphere.
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Jul 30, 2023 4:27:49 GMT
If the Atomic bomb had have been capable of wiping out most of the population of Japan Neumann would have enthusiastically involved himself in calculating how this could best be achieved ... the location where the bomb would be dropped and at what height it would explode.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 30, 2023 10:31:28 GMT
If the Atomic bomb had have been capable of wiping out most of the population of Japan Neumann would have enthusiastically involved himself in calculating how this could best be achieved ... the location where the bomb would be dropped and at what height it would explode. Did you watch the film? It's pretty much what one of his colleagues said about him. Any government man who turned up got his full undivided attention and service. It was his undoing. He would not have got cancer at 40 if he had not worked on fissile materials. His inventions on the nuclear bomb have killed those Japanese and left millions deformed. How was it that one f the greatest minds ever made the greatest mistake ever too? He was friends with Bertrand Russell, who did understand the nuclear bomb. He got that one right when Britain was looking to create unimaginable terror. |
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