[chestervonwinch]

> there's some politics at work in who is remembered

politics, or do people have natural a bias towards giving attribution to a lone genius?

[pixelpoet]

von Neumann wasn't a lone genius, he was a god, the only "human" completely beyond the bounds of our comprehension. Accepting that is the first required step to understanding his contributions to the modern world.

[alanbernstein]

This is how I feel about Ramanujan. He seemed to pull mathematical truths, fully formed, out of some parallel dimension connected only to his mind.

[dEnigma]

If anything you're losing some understanding when you try to see him as something other than human. Absolutely outstanding, sure, but not something else entirely.