1. It is very interesting to note that Freeman Dyson considers Von Neumann to be a frog rather than a bird.
Considering Neumann's wide ranging, and prodigious work, I always thought of him as a superman who could survey the entire landscape of mathematics. Dyson does give some persuasive reasons why this may not be true.
Considering Neumann's wide ranging, and prodigious work, I always thought of him as a superman who could survey the entire landscape of mathematics. Dyson does give some persuasive reasons why this may not be true.
2. Dyson reminds me of Isaiah Berlin's THE HEDGEHOG AND THE FOX essay: https://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/crag/files/2016/06/the_hedgeh...