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John von Neumann's 1935 letter to Oswald Veblen
The book John von Neumann: Selected Letters* by Miklós Rédei (2005) is a fascinating collection of 150 of John von Neumann (1903-57)’s correspondences…
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Jørgen Veisdal
The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
“It will be a strange essay for economists, but it can be important. Very.”
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Jørgen Veisdal
Abel: The Mozart of Mathematics
“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of productivity and his…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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May 2024

Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919)
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was quite a lucky man.
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Jørgen Veisdal
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April 2024

The Birth of AI (1956)
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was an academic workshop sometimes considered to be the founding moment for artificial…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939)
Famously, after obtaining his Ph.D.
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Jørgen Veisdal
The Great Purge (1933)
“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Einstein-Freud Correspondence (1932)
Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?
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