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von Neumann’s letter has it all: a discussion of the theory of spectra of Hermitean operators, inquiries about spin-geometries and not least of all, gossip. Lots of gossip. ift.tt/lUCWvjV


"The most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons held in 1927 in Brussels, Belgium ift.tt/5a7Ew2i


“Grothendieck was working on the foundations of algebraic geometry seven days a week, twelve hours a day, for ten years”. - David Ruelle ift.tt/GigJdBr


"By the time he was four, he could calculate in his head how many seconds a person had been alive" ift.tt/dDFxE82


The Best Books on the Golden Age of Quantum Physics👇🏼 ift.tt/kxV894w (Amazon Affiliate Link)


“It’s just an opinion — but Ted was brilliant [...]. He could have become one of the greatest mathematicians in the country” ift.tt/FU2TVrp


The 1956 Darthmouth Conference, proposed by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon and Nathaniel Rochester ift.tt/vjgTud2


“He is by all odds the most brilliant young physicist here, and everyone knows this. He is a second Dirac, only this time human” ift.tt/516Ixdr


F: I am Feynman. D: I am Dirac. (Silence) F: It must be wonderful to be the discoverer of that equation. D: That was a long time ago. (Pause) ift.tt/yIU5M0p


The Best Books about Richard Feynman👇🏼 ift.tt/cKJqR5G (Amazon Affiliate Link)


“An American John von Neumann, a polymath of great originality who made stunning contributions in pure mathematics and then embarked on a second and equally astounding career in applied mathematics” ift.tt/K15FvLa


“I would like to make a number of remarks on the relation of mathematics and physics” - Richard Feynman ift.tt/Bms9VcI


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