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This implies that JvN was a gambler , but not a computer*

(*) Okay, not a 1980s-level computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

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This was an earlier husband of hers, not von Neumann.


Oops, I wasn't reading carefully and got this wrong -- this was in fact von Neumann.


Yes, the first husband was an inveterate gambler, but she did meet JvN in a casino too, with an absurd story.


We know him for his researches in games of chance (& skill), but here he definitely took his chances :)

"Chess is not a game. Chess is computation." --JvN




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