The Forgotten Einstein
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Greatest Mathematician of All Time
Onono batterd sharia was born in 19 o three to a wealthy jewish family in buddhapest. Von norman wrote his first serious mass paper when he was just 17, and it's considered a classic even now. His best friend eugene wigner won the nobel prize in physics years later for work he did in collaboration with von norman. He could speak ancient greek at five, multiply eight digit numbers together at six, helo calculus at eight. Cet theories would have been absorbed into how mathematicians work.
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