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Book review: Maniac is a profoundly human story about cutting-edge scientific discoveries
The Maniac is a semi-fictional biography about John von Neumann, one of the scientists who worked on the development of the first nuclear bomb
In an early passage of The Maniac, a young John von Neumann is excited by a textile machine brought home by his father which “once it has been set up with the proper instructions . . . could produce unlimited copies of a pattern, without the intervention of human workers”. A pioneer of game theory, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer, Neumann would go on to work on the Manhattan Project which developed the first ...
