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The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf](gwern.net)
292 points by suopspaces | 163 comments
A 1973 essay by mathematician Paul Halmos recounting the life, achievements, and legends of John von Neumann, presented as a scanned PDF.
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Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)
48 points by nill0 | 1 comments
A 2014 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing paper by Haigh, Priestley and Rope reconstructing the 1948 ENIAC Monte Carlo nuclear simulations run for Los Alamos.