About this episode
Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann . He is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography from Imperial College London. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . Follow Ananyo on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps: (0:00:30) - John Von Neumann - The Man From The Future (0:02:29) - The Forgotten Father of Game Theory (0:16:04) - The last representative of the great mathematicians (0:19:45) - Did John Von Neumann have a Miracle year? (0:26:31) - The fundamental theorem of John von Neumann’s game theory (0:29:34) - The strong supporter of "Preventive War” (0:50:51) - We can't all be superhuman Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe