From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:10:35 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John von Neumann! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20171228021035.d7wl3uerwhhpv2l2@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> 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. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.