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...addition to Hungarian and English, Von Neumann speaks French and German, and has a large brown dog named Inverse. People who should know say that Von Neumann is eminently qualified to sit across the atomic table from the Russians in the greatest game in the world...
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...young man, Dr. Von Neumann became fascinated with the game of poker, and after 15 years of study, he evolved mathematical descriptions for the strategical conflict involved. A nonstrategical game (e.g., craps) can be scientifically described in familiar terms of probability. But a strategical game, like poker, where the player has a choice, and where winning or losing may depend on finding out what is in an opponent's mind and concealing what is in one's own, is far more difficult to cope with theoretically. Von Neumann gets at the heart of the strategic conflict through...
...basic Von Neumann equation reads...
Said Mathematician John von Neumann of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, who last week was appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Very many people who have some trivial blot way back in their past do not know whether they can take a chance on getting into sensitive work ... To have once been dropped for security reasons is for the average person ... a professional catastrophe...