Monday, November 3, 2014

The Lightning Calculator, 1954

The New Wonder Book Cyclopedia of World Knowledge.  Philadelphia & Toronto:  International Press, 1954
At this date, Oppenheimer was in the middle of his fall from grace in the ultra-paranoid, anti-communist political climate of the time.

Von Neumann had only a few years to live, dying of cancer possibly caused by his presence at the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.
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