The Man from the Future

What an excellent book and wonderfully written. Fascinating.

This biography read like a history of selected science of the 20th and it is its main strength. Von Neumann is a unique figure that changes the course of science and history and the book is very detailed.

Well-titled story of the most undertold life story of the 20th century

I enjoyed the book, though some of the tangents into work done building on von Neumann's ideas felt long-winded.

The personal stuff was interesting but the detailed explanations and tangents rather dull.

I was a bit disappointed the author spent so much time on other people rather than von Neumann. A large part of the book is background on the science/current events of the time and discusses various other persons, whereas I wanted more of a biography focusing on von Neumann himself. There's not much discussion about his personal life or what he was really like, merely a summary of his work.