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I think that Von Neumann raise three important issues, two of them are largely solved, and one of them is not yet solved.

- Hardware failures

- Complexity theory

- CS and Formal logic is combinatorial rather than analytical, we can't use the powerful tools of mathematical analysis to solve those combinatorial problems.

This reminds me of a remark of Paul Erdős about the Collatz conjecture: "Mathematics may not be ready for such problems." EDIT: text format



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