Comment by SimplyUnknown
9 hours ago
For a longer read, I can highly recommend the book "The Man from the Future" by Ananyo Bhattacharya. It's quite an easy read and extensively discusses the life and discoveries by John von Neumann in chronological order.
I had to frequently pause my read to research a discovery in more depth to understand the significance of it and I got a chuckle when he marries his childhood sweetheart because she got no mention prior to that point in the book.
"Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson is also great. It's a kind of broad biography of all the great minds that started the computer age.
Hour long author's interview about the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N1CZb4hel0
I read this last year and also recommend!
Books from before the age of AI will only become more precious over time. This is great.
He's my favourite mathematician too. Loved The Man from the Future book. Can we get a frontier model named after him perhaps? "Johnny" would be a great codename imo