ISS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller
19 Nov 2018
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John von neumann by age 10: already spoke english, french, german, italian, and. Ancient greek, knew integral and differential calculus, and could multiply and divide 8- digit numbers in his head. Dennis gaboro: during his childhood in budapest, gabor and his brother would often duplicate the experiments they read about in scientific journals in their home laboratory. Paul erdos: taught himself to read through mathematics text that his parents left around their home. By the age of four, given a person"s age, he could calculate in his head, how many seconds they had lived. Manhattan project was led by a group of hungarian super geniuses : manhattan. Project founder leo szilard, h-bomb creator edward teller, quantum physicist eugene. Jews make up 0. 2% of the population of the world, yet are 22% of nobel prize winners and other various awards . Ashkenazi jews (eastern europe jews), not sephardic or mizrahi.
