Man from the future. The life of John von Neuman, who created our world. Bhattacarya A.

The physicist and mathematician, who was born in Hungary at the dawn of the twentieth century, John von Neumann lived a little more than fifty years, but his contribution to science cannot be overestimated. Von Neuman played an important role in creating an atomic bomb, developed many principles of architecture of modern computers, laid the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics and determined the essence of the theory of games.

In his truly exciting book Anano Bhattacharya, Doctor of Biophysical Sciences and constant The author of the publications Nature and Economist, draws a portrait of a thinker and a weapon, whose ideas were so ahead of time that they are truly realized only now. Describing the history of von Neumann life and exploring the evolution of his scientific views, Bhattacharya shows how a combination of genius and unique circumstances helped one person to cover so many different areas of science and form the appearance of the modern world.