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The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

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  1. SimplyUnknown · · focus · HN ↗
    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.
    1. phba · · focus · HN ↗
      "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.
      1. 0xdada · · focus · HN ↗
        ctrl+f'd this to make sure, 2 hits of course. Highly recommended, there is a fun anecdote in there that resembles rowhammer but done on magnetic core memory iirc
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