Von Neumann

Von Neumann's wartime Los Alamos ID badge photo Warning: This post has KaTeX enabled, so if you want to view the rendered math formulas, you’ll have to unfortunately enable JavaScript. John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician. But to define him as a simple mathematician would be an understatement. He is a fucking legend and one of my heroes! He single-handedly: proposed an axiomatization of set theory along with a definition of cardinality that remains the standard one in mathematics today....

June 22, 2024 · 6 min · Jose Storopoli