From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann!
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:10:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171228021035.d7wl3uerwhhpv2l2@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712280908590.64029@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-27 22:10 Dave Horsfall
2017-12-27 22:26 ` Nemo Nusquam
2017-12-27 23:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-12-28 2:10 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2017-12-28 2:15 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-12-28 13:40 ` [TUHS] XINU for the 68000 / 68010 Jason Stevens
2017-12-28 14:06 ` arnold
2017-12-28 17:20 ` Jason Stevens
2018-02-02 0:04 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann! Nemo
2018-02-02 17:01 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-12-28 3:08 Dave Horsfall
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