It will not be sufficient to know that the enemy has only fifty possible tricks and that we can counter every one of them, but we must be able to cou… - John von Neumann

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It will not be sufficient to know that the enemy has only fifty possible tricks and that we can counter every one of them, but we must be able to counter them almost at the very instant they occur.

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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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Native Name: margittai Neumann János Lajos
Also Known As: Good Time Johnny
Alternative Names: John Von Neumann Janos Lajos Neumann János Lajos Neumann von Neumann Neumann János Lajos John Louis von Neumann János Neumann
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