John von Neumann might be the most important figure in Wolfram Physics prehistory.
Whenever any of the most important prerequisites to Wolfram Physics were happening - quantum mechanics, Gödel’s theorem, Turing machines, electronic computers, cellular automata - John von Neumann always seemed to be there.
How did John von Neumann always come to be in the right place at the right time to contribute to some of the most significant developments in physics, mathematics and computation history?
For this, another high-budget, big-hair episode of The Last Theory, I flew all the way to Budapest, where John von Neumann was born, to point to a plaque and get some answers.
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I took inspiration and information for this episode from Ananyo Bhattacharya’s / ananyo biography of John von Neumann: The Man from the Future
People
- John von Neumann en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_vo...
- Albert Einstein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...
- Erwin Schrödinger en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_S...
- Werner Heisenberg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_...
- Kurt Gödel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%...
- Alan Turing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Tu...
- Seth Neddermeyer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Ne...
- J. Presper Eckert en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%2E_Pr...
- John Mauchly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ma...
- Stephen Wolfram en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...
- Jonathan Gorard www.wolframphysics.org/people...
- Max Piskunov www.wolframphysics.org/people...
- Stanisław Ulam en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%...
- Father Strickland quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12...
Concepts
- Hilbert space en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...
- Gödel’s incompleteness theorems en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
- Universal Turing machine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
- Turing’s proof en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%...
- Von Neumann architecture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neu...
- The Manhattan Project en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhatt...
- Cellular automata en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellula...
Computers
- IAS machine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAS_mac...
- ENIAC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
- EDVAC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC
- IBM 701 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701
Images
- Image of John von Neumann from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which rather pointlessly requires that this rather ponderous statement be reproduced here: “Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.”
- Turing Machine Model Davey 2012 by Rocky Acosta commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... licensed under CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/...
- Animation. 1200 iterations of the ‘Rule 110’ Automata commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Mr. Heretic licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/...
- Bundesarchiv Bild183-R57262, Werner Heisenberg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by an unknown author (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R57262) licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE creativecommons.org/licenses/...
- Turing in 1935 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Tomipelegrin licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/...
- Gospers glider gun commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Lucas Vieira commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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