Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann. He is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography from Imperial College London.
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Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:30 John Von Neumann - The Man From The Future
0:02:29 The Forgotten Father of Game Theory
0:16:04 The last representative of the great mathematicians
0:19:45 Did John Von Neumann have a Miracle year?
0:26:31 The fundamental theorem of John von Neumann’s game theory
0:29:34 The strong supporter of "preventive war”
0:50:51 We can't all be superhuman

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