| ▲ | joenot443 8 hours ago | |||||||
I enjoyed this one a lot. For those who've read other books on von Neumann, do you think The MANIAC is a reasonable summary? | ||||||||
| ▲ | helterskelter2 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I haven't read MANIAC (yet) but a few years back I was trying to find a good biography of Von Neumann and there are not many; the problem is that he's really difficult to cover comprehensively, even for science historians, because he impacted so many areas of science that you'd practically have to be a von Neumann to create a biography of von Neumann. One could probably get a rough idea of his intelligence by how many science historians it would take to create a comprehensive biography which explains his life and work to a reasonably intelligent layman. | ||||||||
| ▲ | MattGrommes 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
It's less of a strict biography and more of a fictionalized story involving Von Neumann and his wife. As far as I can recall from my reading it was pretty historically accurate though. | ||||||||
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