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Paul Halmos: "Hal paling spektakuler tentang Johnny [von Neumann] buka...

"Hal paling spektakuler tentang Johnny [von Neumann] bukanlah kekuatannya sebagai ahli matematika, yang hebat, atau wawasan dan kejelasannya, tetapi kecepatannya; dia sangat, sangat cepat. Dan seperti komputer modern, yang tidak lagi mengganggu untuk mengambil logaritma 11 dari ingatannya (tetapi, sebaliknya, menghitung logaritma 11 setiap kali diperlukan), Johnny tidak repot-repot mengingat sesuatu. Dia menghitungnya. Anda mengajukan pertanyaan kepadanya, dan jika dia tidak tahu jawabannya, dia berpikir selama tiga detik dan akan menghasilkan dan menjawab."

--- Paul Halmos

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.