Loring W. Tu actually drew the same conclusion from Von Neumann feeling wanting (emphasis mine):
One of Raoul’s observations on life has played a crucial role in my mental equilibrium. When he was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1949–51, he once had a conversation with John von Neumann, a fellow Hungarian who was at the time a professor at the institute. Von Neumann told Raoul that he had known only one great mathematician, David Hilbert, and that having been a prodigy in his youth, he never felt that he had lived up to his promise. Ra
Loring W. Tu actually drew the same conclusion from Von Neumann feeling wanting (emphasis mine):
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