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John von Neumann

A sepia-toned portrait of John von Neumann, wearing a suit with a tie and pocket square, seated against a plain background.

Hungarian-American polymath (1903–1957) who made foundational contributions to set theory, quantum mechanics, game theory, computing, and nuclear weapons design. Present at the 1930 Königsberg conference where Gödel first hinted at incompleteness, he was reportedly the only attendee who grasped the result on the spot and independently derived the second incompleteness theorem within weeks.

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