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mrstickball t1_ixm8haa wrote

Von Neumann's contributions are incredible. But much like Turinf, died relatively young in his early 50s. If he had lived as long as, say, Einstein, would he of kept up such an incredible pace of contributions to humanity?

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simplicissimusrex OP t1_ixm9a75 wrote

The guy was still writing incredible lectures on his deathbed! He would have been unstoppable. He was taking an interest in molecular biology too in the '50s. It was a huge loss that cancer took him so early.

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