Is it too late to be awesome?

Re:Is it too late to be awesome? by StefanKarpinski on Thursday June 27, 2013 @01:12AM (#5950808)

Does anyone know of a biography of Von Neumann? I've looked for one many times and never found any. It's like he was five different men – he revolutionized so many fields, any of which would have been an epic accomplishment. He was also the only one who immediately understood the significance and consequences of Gödel's incompleteness result, according to Goldstein's biography of that other genius.

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Re:Is it too late to be awesome? by calhoun137 on Thursday June 27, 2013 @01:29AM (#5950852)

Turing's Cathedral[1] is not a proper biography, but it's mostly all about Von Nuemann during the period where he worked on the early computer. I have read most of it while in the bookstore, and it's really good.

[1]http://books.google.com/books?id=6sElRNGXWFIC&printsec=front...

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Re:Is it too late to be awesome? by garg on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:44AM (#5951580)

His daughter wrote a memoir: Martian's Daughter: A Memoir http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009HBYAR2/

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Re:Is it too late to be awesome? by gngeal on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:37AM (#5951381)

What about "The world as a mathematical game: John von Neumann and twentieth century science"?

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Re:Is it too late to be awesome? by mneary on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:30PM (#5954829)

Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone traces his development of game theory.

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Re:Is it too late to be awesome? by atsaloli on Thursday June 27, 2013 @01:15AM (#5950815)

Start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

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