HP's Chinese Parents

Chapter 42 Von Neumann

On this day, Allen rushed into Nick's bedroom excitedly early in the morning, startling Nick who was already awake but still lying in bed with his eyes closed and stroking snakes.

"Von Neumann! Von Neumann is coming to Cambridge! He's coming to Cambridge to escape the summer!" Allen sat on the bed and shook Nick's shoulder desperately.

Nick groaned||groaned, almost knocked out of his body, thinking that it's a good thing he was only masturbating Xiaojin, not other things.

"I got it, I got it!" Nick struggled to escape from his clutches, lifted the quilt and got out of bed to get dressed.

"He gave a lecture in Cambridge!" Allen followed him like a follower, grabbing Nick's hand that was pulling up his pants: "Tomorrow!"

"Okay, okay, let's go together tomorrow." Nick shook off his hand, then looked down: "You lift your feet up first, don't step on my pants anymore!"

Although Nick was not as excited as Allen, he did think that von Neumann was a man worth seeing.

John von Neumann is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.The father of this big man was a Hungarian banker who was extremely wealthy.Born in a wealthy family, von Neumann never went to school and never experienced an orthodox centralized education. He grew up freely according to his own interests under the connivance of his father.If it is an ordinary child, it is estimated that he will be directly raised as a playboy, but this genius is surprisingly good. At the age of 18, he was already able to master four languages ​​and published his first thesis.Afterwards, this big guy had to publish his works crazily, covering fields ranging from set theory axioms, to quantum mechanics, to topological group theory, to game theory, to physics, to computer science, and was hailed as the father of modern computers by later generations.

In fact, the 'father of modern computers' own computing power has surpassed most computers.His colleague once complained that he used a desktop computer to calculate the problem all night. Von Neumann looked at the ceiling and gave the answer in less than 5 minutes. Not only that, he also listed five solutions.

In addition to academic theories, he has also developed numerous side jobs. He has done engineering, participated in the Manhattan Project, engaged in nuclear weapons, dabbled in biological and chemical weapons, and personally supervised the construction of the world's first computer.At the same time, he is dignified, sophisticated, and has a humorous personality, making it a breeze to talk to him.Unlike Allen, a genius in pure science, von Neumann possesses profound historical knowledge while possessing super computing power.He has an absolutely accurate memory. All the articles and even books he has read can be recited without any punctuation, and he can even recite them directly in a language different from the original.

Hans Bethe, a Nobel laureate in physics, once commented: I sometimes think, since there is a brain like von Neumann, does it imply that there are biological species more advanced than humans in the universe.

The next day, they went to this lecture on 'Theory of Almost Periodic Functions' together.The scene was so crowded that even the steps were full of people. Fortunately, Nick and Alan arrived half an hour early and snatched a seat in the front row.

Nick also had the privilege of watching an exchange (incomprehensible to mortals) between two of the greatest scientists.

To be honest, even with Nick’s own love filter, I have to admit that when Alan and Von Neumann stand together and compare, no matter in terms of temperament, manners, conversation, or clothing... Alan They all lost quite badly.They are like people from two worlds!But mathematics does not care about this aspect, mathematicians have their own unique language of communication.In those gibberish codes that Nick couldn't understand, the two geniuses had a fierce thought collision. They talked happily and cherished each other, and they both felt that they had discovered a treasure.

"I'm going to Princeton next year!" Allen happily announced his plan after the lecture. Princeton is the university where von Neumann works now: "I'm going to apply to be a visiting scholar in Princeton!"

"It's pretty good." Nick said with a smile: "In recent years, the United States has gradually replaced Germany as the world center of mathematics and physics. It's good for you to communicate."

Allen was nodding his head in satisfaction, and then he looked at Nick with a tangled look as if he suddenly remembered something.

'Is he reluctant to part with me?Alan, this guy actually thought of me before going to von Neumann! ? Nick was flattered by this look, but he had been stabbed too many times by Allen, so he didn't want to ask directly.

He just pretended not to care and casually said: "I happen to be going to America next year, we can go together."

When Allen heard the words, he immediately stopped being entangled, and he changed to "Oh, he really likes me and I can't leave him for a moment!" ' looked Nick from head to toe with his eyes.

"Okay." Allen agreed reservedly.

However, during this trip to Cambridge, Nick discovered a lot of things that bothered him. He saw that the boy sitting next to Alan tried to pull Alan's hand several times, while the boy sitting behind Alan expressed angrily. stared at him several times.

He endured it for a few days, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, and he couldn't help asking: "By the way, Alan, is the boy with the blond hair sitting on your right that day at the lecture your classmate?"

"Kennedy Harrison?" Allen replied without looking up, flipping through game theory, "I forgot if he was sitting next to me, but I know him as the only one with blonde hair and blue eyes among my classmates. What do you ask him for?" ?”

Nick hesitated for a moment and said straight: "I see...he seems to want to hold your hand under the table?"

Allen replied indifferently: "Oh, he is always like this. He wants to sleep with me. It didn't help that I beat him up last time."

"What?" Nick jumped up directly, and he had the urge to call the police: "Why didn't you beat him to death!"

Allen turned his attention away from the book, looked up at him with a look of insanity, and then said calmly: "There are so many people who want to sleep with me, he is not bad."

"What?!?!" Nick felt that his world view was about to be shattered into dregs. In his heart, Alan had always been a lonely academic genius, so he only dared to watch from a distance and dare not play with it. Who knew Alan's Popularity' is actually so good!

"They, they all know you..."

"Know what? Know that I like men?" Allen suddenly became interested in this topic. He closed the book and looked at Nick playfully.

Nick wondered, is Cambridge so open? "How do they know?"

Allen rubbed his chin and recalled: "Kennedy Harrison will know because I told him that James Atkins came across me solving small problems on the hillside by the lake, and then suddenly fell in love with me... ..."

Nick was at a loss: "By the lake? What little problem?"

Allen drove calmly: "The weather was extremely hot that day, and I was walking alone on the hillside. As I was walking, I suddenly felt that it was a good idea to have a shot here, so I lay on the grass and took off my clothes... "

The author has something to say: Two days ago, I saw an old driver in the comment area saying that Nick used something to conquer Alan... I thought to myself, heh, you really don’t know the lower limit of the morals of academic bigwigs ...

Nick and Alan are as pure as little angels!

感谢在2020-06-1111:48:43~2020-06-1312:16:20期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 Stark's leg pendant;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 5 bottles of phoenix; 1 bottle of star carvings in the sky;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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