I mean, underrated in popular culture compared to Einstein, let's say. But, I've just learnt an anecdote about Neumann, Einstein and Godel. When Neumann signe

I mean, underrated in popular culture compared to Einstein, let's say. But, I've just learnt an anecdote about Neumann, Einstein and Godel. When Neumann signed for Princeton, he had two conditions: a 16k annual salary (others earned ~2k at that time) and to bring in that two people who are smarter than he. (Source, in Hungarian, someday we will have the subtitles from the AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6xoHlr0zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6xoHlr0zk) UPDATE: The talk is about miracles and geniuses. According to the speaker, a genius is somebody who sees something which wasn’t in the air, up until that time. Neumann wasn’t a genius, rather a polymath who saw all what was in the air at that time