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Cantor's Paradise “Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants” Share If you enjoy this newsletter, please consider supporting future issues by signing up for a paid subscription at $5 per month, which also gives you access to all previous issues. Thanks! It is indeed supremely difficult to effectively refute the claim that John von Neumann is likely the most intelligent person who has ever lived. By the time of his death in 1957 at the modest age of 53, the Hungarian polymath had not only revolutionized several subfields of mathematics and physics but also...

Cantor's Paradise Share This is a free preview of a premium issue of the Cantor’s Paradise newsletter. If you enjoy it, I hope you will consider supporting future such issues by signing up for a paid subscription. Thank you! Left: Wiener with Max Born in Göttingen in 1925 (Photo: George H. Davis, Jr. Courtesy MIT Museum). Mathematician and later father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) crossed paths with many great minds in his life, from Bertrand Russell and G.H. Hardy, to Max Born, John F. Nash Jr. and John von Neumann. von Neumann’s assistant Edgar R. Lorch’s recollecti...