For the love of God, *please*, please please please do not do the thing where you show EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU SPEAK one at a time in rapid-fire succession. It's so distracting that I can't even concentrate on what you're actually saying. That sort of thing might grab people's short attention spans in a 30-second TikTok video, but in a video essay like this, even a short one, it's utterly overwhelming and obnoxious. I like your content, but the editing style brings it down so much.

Who is smarter than Einstein? Zweistein ... badum tss.

Cool idea, but I'm getting epilepsy rn...

I only know this guy because of Computerscience. Did not know he did sooo much more, tysm for making me appreciate him more!

Einstein himself didn't really fit the model for super genius that you laid out. He was known for being a ladies man and being terribly forgetful-even about things related to his work such as really basic physical constants. He's more famous because his theories were wildly creative and original. He was basically the first one to write an equation on a blackboard somewhere that predicted physical and cosmic events/objects that were either previously unknown or predicted very poorly. Black holes and even nuclear weapons had a theoretical basis in his work before observation/construction. I mean just think about that for a second. Imagine you wrote some formulas and from them (and nothing else), you figured out that somewhere in the universe there's probably these objects with gravity so powerful that they suck up light itself. He found that so far fetched that he denied it and assumed his theory was wrong somehow only for it to be proven right years later. In terms of raw IQ, Von Neumann definitely takes the cake but he still never came up with anything that was as big of a deal as that, nor has anyone else. That isn't to downplay his achievements, but even though his computer architecture is insanely influential it just isn't on the same scale as general relativity.

stopped watching 10 seconds in because i almost started having a seizure

Here's what Eugene Wigner has to say about both Einstein and von Neumann, as someone who personally knew both of them: "I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jancsi [John] von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed. But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything as original."

These words shoot at my eyes like a gun

This to me misrepresents both von Neumann and Einstein in an overtly linear way. Like most things in science, its quite wrong to say von Neumann solely solely created the Monte-Carlo method or that he is solely responsible for computer architecture where it's even cited on the wiki "Although the single-memory, stored program architecture is commonly called von Neumann architecture, the architecture was based on the work of J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor, EDVAC." (such happens a ton in math and science). Frankly, those that don't know better in these subjects often see a tagged name as having contribution to an area to saying they created the whole area. Science progresses by a *ton* of peoples work, and you really need to consider influence and impact. von Neumann was without a doubt a genius. However, unless you get very technical, there is few areas in math I can particularly name his influence on. Continuous geometry and lattice theory is first thing that comes to mind, though I'm guessing if I knew more about operator algebras his name would be there. So so so many mathematicians and physicists fall into this category, it is the cold, hard fact of how science and math progresses, no matter how smart you are. Among the various fields of math and *core* results, a name stands out far and above him and that is Grothendieck who I think almost single handedly modernized math. Search for a name that shows up as frequently and he is the one that tops the list. Noethers insights into algebra were also by far some of the most deep reaching and most of our ways of thinking about it is due to her. Look deep enough and you get names like Stefan Banach, whose names are plastered all over their very concentrated, influential innovations: in this case, on the core concepts of functional analysis. Cartan seems to come up in several areas, and I didn't know this until I started searching. That said, von Neumann is listed as one of the most influential figures in scientific computing, which isn't entirely my field. So I can't say. Einstein is a rare, unique case. His technical prowess can certainly be debated. However, he practically single handedly faced some of the most seemingly self contradictory confusing subjects (the magnitudes this is the case I can list off on end), stared it in the face, and through keen insight and unique physical principles solely attributable to him, created a *paradigm shift* in the field of science on several, several layers all in a manner essentially solely attributable to him. There were a few along the way, like Minkowski and David Hilbert that used their expertise to provide some insights on core ideas, but practically every big result was Einsteins. He also played a key role in almost every area of physics, including quantum mechanics (beyond the photoelectric effect, but work on Born-Einstein condensates) and even statistical thermodynamics. In terms of sheer influence in any particular field, it isn't even a contest.

Remove the subsitles

If I studied for one minute every time Von Neuman was mentioned during my undegrad studies, I'd have a PhD.

80 years later and his CPU framework is still being used without substantial changes. Impressive, but also scary considering that we need better JIT compilation that is secure by design unlike von Neumann based CPUs.

Good video, but the single word subtitles are very annoying to me. I guess it's trying to replicate bionic reading or something, but it seems more like the TikTok style of doing it.

mf teached himself calculus OVER A SUMMER BECAUSE HE WAS BORED

You're also wrong about John Nash in that he didn't win his Nobel Prize for devising game theory, but for his specific work in game theory.

the single word display should only be used in very small amounts for emphasis. If you emphasize every line then nothing is emphasized, it's like highlighting everything

He is just like Ayanokouji fr fr

Meh, of course we've heard about him.

His work was also classified and purposefully downplayed. You don't advertise classified information or the people working on it.

love your content, keep posting more

1) Anyone who knows anything about mathematics or computer science has heard of von Neumann 2) a) Even though it's called "von Neumann architecture" because von Neumann wrote and published "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" some on the EDVAC design team contended that the stored-program concept had evolved out of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering predating von Neumann's activity as a consultant there, and that much of the work represented in the First Draft was no more than a translation of the discussed concepts into the language of formal logic in which von Neumann was fluent. Hence, failure of von Neumann and Goldstine to list others as authors on the First Draft led credit to be attributed to von Neumann alone b) Konrad Zuse had developed a computer architecture years before in Germany during WWII. 3) Game theory is not "the basis of modern economics" though it has been a fruitful area of research in economics as well as other disciplines.

I was waiting for this video

Just to add more on top....he also invented cellular automata in 1952 with just a pencil and graph without any mistakes (which was hard to do because it wouldn't work otherwise). The first self-replicating 2-D Automaton. It was a theoretical but was later tested on computer simulations to be working perfectly.

Oh wow, I didn't know Neumann was all that.

Put an epilepsy warning on this jesus

So pleased to see someone honour on another KZfaq about some of what this amazing man did.

This was very interesting, thanks

Alright, I want to mention the “divide two eight digit numbers” bit. Taken at face value, it’s not too difficult. Division is only difficult when the dividend has more digits than the divisor. Assuming you meant up to eight digits, yeah that is actually pretty impressive.

Good video bro. "It seems fair to say that if the influence of a scientist is interpreted broadly enough to include impact on fields beyond science proper, then John von Neumann was probably the most influential mathematician who ever lived." ~ Miklós Rédei.

Ha! wondered if this would be von neumann

This video is actually so good

The single word is like a CIA strobe light nightmare😖😖

does this guy not know that youtube already has a closed captioning method built in?

Fake title, i already knew about Von Neumann. Disliked.

I'm focusing more on reading the text than. . .who is this video about? Static imagery would have been greatly preferred and beneficial.

Von Neumann was one of the Martians. Including Von Karman, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, and the Hungarian brain drain that supercharged American science in the first half of the twentieth century. Von Neumann was certainly the most blazing genius, but there was a lot of other transplanted genius from Hungary as well.

ofc we all heard of neumann

Great video

Great video, but the words appearing one by one are annoying. It would have been better to have the whole sentence

HOw did you done subtitles - there are awful

I've definitely heard of John von Neumann

This video almost gave me a seizure

Bro how do you not not list Hungarian in the languages he spoke? He's literally Hungarian.

The weak spot in your narration is when you ask why von Neumann isn't well-known. He is well-known, and has been for decades. I read a very thorough biography of von Neumann thirty years ago, and I knew of him and his accomplishments as far back as the '70s by reading popular science literature. Lots of folks have known about von Neumann for a very long time.

Einsteins first wife Mileva (Mitza) Marić did all his maths.

Thank you, this was a good video. Not to pull you down, but this text thing you have got going on is NOT working. Try something else out and good luck; your videos are good stuff.

thank you for putting each word on the screen for a fraction of a second im 5

He invented the idea of von Neumann probes of course I know who he is.

yeah he was insane, I read his article on medium and also that proof story is from "how to solve it" by G polya right?

So just upon reading the title, I was like, "Oh is this a video about John von Neumann?" I dont know why you think nobody's heard of him. I feel like he is very well known among those even vaguely aware of the history of math or computer science. But people love to act like they've rediscovered him.

i knew this

Thank god this guy is getting more attention, he's so sick

Finally Von neumann getting the recognition hahahaha The funny thing he has a special section for Cognitive Abilities, no one in history on wikipedia has such section lol.

Damn unrated?

But did he have rizz?

Nah it was loser

Isn’t it remarkable that besides his intellect, he proposed to exert a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union?

I've known about von Neumann since I was a child, he is extremely well known. Very pointless video

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