Abstract Reader finished reading The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut

The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory …
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A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory …
The book generally is a fun fictionalization of von Neuman's life and work. However, many small inaccuracies in the explanations of the various technical topics central to the plot ruined the experience for me.

A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory …

"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now …

"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now …

"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …

"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …