[HN Gopher] John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse
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       John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2025-11-14 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Neywiny wrote:
       | I had a professor for a computer architecture class who would
       | make up stories of smart things von Neumann _could_ have said.
       | That 's how bad this is
        
       | 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
       | I hope Wikipedia gets updated
        
       | discoutdynamite wrote:
       | My second favorite Johnny story is how he did the math for the
       | explosive lenses on the atom bomb, overnight. What we now call
       | partial derivatives, was not yet rigourously proven and studied,
       | but he signed off on it, and it worked. For the sake of the
       | contention in the article, I am distinctly thinking of Grigori
       | Perelman as almost an echo to this phenomenon. He felt his
       | contributions were useful but not miraculous, and himself almost
       | ordinary, that he was being recognized more for sake of
       | national/racial partisanship.
        
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