28 Dec
2017
28 Dec
'17
8:10 a.m.
On 2017-12-28 09:10, Dave Horsfall wrote:
We gained John von Neumann on this day in 1903, and if
you haven't
heard of him then you are barely human... As computer science goes,
he's right up there with Alan Turing. There is speculation that he
knew of Babbage's work
And those like me who are Masters Of No Trade know that he started as a
pure maths person, inventing the encoding of ordered pairs and ordinal
numbers in formalized set theory.
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