No I think it was more someone like Riemann, Abel or Gauss, but I can't find any proof of this being true for any of them. Probably one of those apocryphal sto

No I think it was more someone like Riemann, Abel or Gauss, but I can't find any proof of this being true for any of them. Probably one of those apocryphal stories that died when the internet came along (I remember first hearing of this two decades ago).