Quotes About John von Neumann

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous system.

Since I am neither a neurologist nor a psychiatrist, but a mathematician, the work that follows requires some explanation and justification.

It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.

En palabras de George Dyson: «El computador de programa almacenado, tal y como lo imaginó Alan Turing y lo plasmó John von Neumann, diluyó la distinción entre números que significan cosas y números que hacen cosas. Nuestro universo nunca volvería a ser el mismo».