>Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann is almost like another species. Von Neumann's contemporaries agreed, which is why he

>Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann is almost like another species. Von Neumann's contemporaries agreed, which is why he and other Ashkenazi Jews from Hungary were nicknamed Martians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) . Societal and genetic pressures over centuries produced unusually high IQs (and some associated genetic problems).