“As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 4, Princeton Days, p. 76

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