Von Neumann was born in Budapest around 1903 to a wealthy Jewish family and showed prodigious ability early: six-figure mental calculations by age six, calculus by eight, and teaching set theory to the older Eugene Wigner by around eleven.
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“he can do these long six-figure calculations in his head by six and he's learned calculus by eight right and he's teaching himself the finer points of set theory um by kind of eleven”
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