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What is his greatest achievement?Does he even have a single one?


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What is his greatest achievement?

Does he even have a single one?
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he didn't shitpost on/ sci/
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>>7653665

Bumping this because I'm curious and I want in on the meme. I saw "Von Neumann universes" and my nose started bleeding a bit. Conceptually that wasn't even a a very difficult idea (very very large finite numbers related to cardinality or similar), I just wasn't familiar with the jargon/motivation.
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He helped win the war by making the atomic bomb
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>>7653665

I barely know anything about the guy, but I know what a von Neumann probe is.

Any famous concepts named after you, OP?
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>>7653869
>that scoliosis
he even gave his body for science ;_;
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>>7653989
nah but I'm a von neumann fanboy.

>>7653780
He made advancements in so many different fields. He was part of the manhattan project, developed game theory, stored-program computing, and a whole slew of other shit.

I don't know if he has an 'E=MC^2' though, or something that people will definitely remember him for. Maybe game theory.
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>>7654032
maybe von neumann architecture
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Convincing people that he was some kind of transcendent, super-computing, hyperintelligent being who solved problems and learned things with unlabored flawnessness.
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He's got a lot of things named after him. Maybe not the most but he's up there.
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>>7654050
bingo
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