A photo portrait of Jon von Neumann. He is wearing a dark wool suit, seated and looking at the camera.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 16:51:07 UTC Robert McNees

   Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist, the great omnimath John von Neumann was born #OTD in 1903.

   He considered his quantum mechanics contributions to be most important. To get a sense of the breadth of his work, look at his Wikipedia “known for” list.