Human Capacity to Absorb Information
John von Neumann was a twentieth-century polymath who made enormous contributions in mathematics and science. He invented the eponymous von Neumann architecture for computers, which is still used in computers today. The speed and depth of his thought processes amazed his contemporaries, who were themselves leaders in their fields. Many considered his genius to be in a class by itself, and during his lifetime, some thought he was the smartest human alive. Stanislaw Ulam, a mat