Are you sure you're remembering this right? In "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" there is a story he tells about an ongoing challenge he had with the mathema

Are you sure you're remembering this right? In "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" there is a story he tells about an ongoing challenge he had with the mathematicians. They would come to him with a theorem about topology, and he would tell them if it was true or false. That is much different from solving the theorems.