Not quite the same thing... > George Pólya, whose lectures at ETH Zürich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid

Not quite the same thing... > George Pólya, whose lectures at ETH Zürich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he'd come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper." > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Cognitive_abilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Cognitive_abi...