Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann. He is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography from Imperial College London. Episode website + Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ ananyo-bhattacharya Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3RkYMNW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pWH9rV Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow Ananyo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ananyo Buy The Man From The Future: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Future-Visionary-Life-Neumann/dp/1324003995 Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:30 John Von Neumann - The Man From The Future 0:02:29 The Forgotten Father of Game Theory 0:16:04 The last representative of the great mathematicians 0:19:45 Did John Von Neumann have a Miracle year? 0:26:31 The fundamental theorem of John von Neumann’s game theory 0:29:34 The strong supporter of "preventive war” 0:50:51 We can't all be superhuman