The end of life section is a bit whitewashed. Freeman Dyson had an article (struggling to find it) about how von Neumann was invited to give a Hilbert-style lecture on the 10 problems for the new computing age. All the big names at the time were there, but von Neumann was in such poor shape (dementia I assume), that it was decided to pretend it had never happened.
edit: article is called Birds and Frogs, by Freeman Dyson <a href="https://wucj.lab.westlake.edu.cn/Others/Dyson_Birds_and_Frogs.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://wucj.lab.westlake.edu.cn/Others/Dyson_Birds_and_Frog...
Correct, it was the cancer affecting his brain. Good comment on this at ~55:50 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQp70uqsBV4&t=3470s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQp70uqsBV4&t=3470s
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edit: article is called Birds and Frogs, by Freeman Dyson <a href="https://wucj.lab.westlake.edu.cn/Others/Dyson_Birds_and_Frogs.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://wucj.lab.westlake.edu.cn/Others/Dyson_Birds_and_Frog...
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