Why doesn’t the world know who Von Neumann was, especially now that we are looking into Los Alamos, Oppenheimer and the uranium and plutonium bombs or even Turing?
John von Neumann is not as well-known as Oppenheimer or Einstein because von Neumann was a mathematician, while Oppenheimer and Einstein were physicists. (see John von Neumann – Intelligence and IQ ) For the same reason, many people recognize the names, Stephen Hawking, Madame Curie and Isaac Newton, while few people have heard of Andrew Wiles, Kurt …
