"I was a graduate student—he was one of the great mathematicians of the world."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Claude Shannon, as quoted in A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (2017) by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, p. 76