chess
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Magnus Carlsen once jested in an interview that John Nunn “never became world champion because he is too clever… his enormous powers of understanding distracted him from chess.” The throwaway line was meant as a light compliment. Nevertheless, it hinted at the type of intellectual being that Nunn was, which gave him the ability to
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Being a mathematician in the 1900s was not an occupation that many people envied. Mathematicians often didn’t have much money, and by this point in history, it seemed like there was nothing new under the sun in terms of ideas or concepts to explore in the field. John Von Neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician, was not
Beautiful Minds 