utc the macrae book has a number of problems lousy writing being the most irksome but least defective among them heims strangely not yet mentioned in the further reading for this article is better in most respects but incomplete as a biography a thorough and truly complete biography of von neumann has never been written and it is a shame while the sentiments of friends and family members are sometimes useful in evaluating a book they can't be counted on to be the last word this is of course the principle strike against the goldstine book as well but goldstine isn't intended to be a von neumann biography so it doesn't even really belong in this discussion august