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Meet John von Neumann: The Fastest Mind

Game theory, computer architecture, quantum foundations — colleagues who won Nobels said he was the smart one.

He defined the computer before one existed, shortened a world war — and asked the question AI still lives inside.

He pointed a telescope at the sky, and the sky stopped agreeing with the authorities.

He sat on the most explosive idea in science for twenty years — collecting evidence until the case was undeniable.

Plague closed his university, so a 23-year-old went home to a farm and invented calculus, optics, and gravitation.