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Skip to content  MacTutor HOME BIOGRAPHIES HISTORY TOPICS MAP CURVES SEARCH Von Neumann: The Mathematician John von Neumann wrote The Mathematician which was published in Works of the Mind Vol. I no. 1 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947), 180-196. It has also been published in von Neumann's Collected Works. A discussion of the nature of intellectual work is a difficult task in any field, even in fields which are not so far removed from the central area of our common human intellectual effort as mathematics still is. A discussion of the nature of any intellectual effort is difficult per se - at any rate, more difficult than the mere exercise of that particular intellectual effort. It is harder to understand the mechanism of an airplane, and the theories of the forces which lift and which propel it, than merely to ride in it, to be elevated and transported by it - or even to steer it. It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without ha

Von Neumann: "The Mathematician" - MacTutor History of Mathematics Home Biographies History Topics Map Curves Search Von Neumann: The Mathematician John von Neumann wrote The Mathematician which was published in Works of the Mind Vol. I no. 1 ( University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947) , 180 - 196 . It has also been published in von Neumann's Collected Works. A discussion of the nature of intellectual work is a difficult task in any field, even in fields which are not so far removed from the central area of our common human intellectual effort as mathematics still is. A discussion of

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