" He was "a magician, a magician in the sense that he took what was given and simply forced the conclusions logically out of it, whether it was algebra, geometry, or whatever. He had some way of forcing out the results that made him different from the rest of the people." Israel Halperin about von Neumann "

― , Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960