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Some people confess guilt to claim credit for the sin. - John von Neumann
" "Some people confess guilt to claim credit for the sin.
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About John von Neumann
John von Neumann (28 December 1903 – 8 February 1957) was a Hungarian-American-Jewish mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.
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Also Known As
Native Name:
margittai Neumann János Lajos
Also Known As:
Good Time Johnny
Alternative Names:
John Von Neumann
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Janos Lajos Neumann
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János Lajos Neumann
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von Neumann
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Neumann János Lajos
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John Louis von Neumann
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János Neumann
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No, No, Chess is not a game. Chess is a well-defined form of computation. You may not be able to work out the answers, but in theory there must be a solution, a right procedure in any position. Now, real games,’ he said, ‘are not like that at all. Real life is not like that. Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do. And that is what games are about in my theory.
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