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Hungary for learning

In the 1950s, famous scientist Enrico Fermi was asked if humans would ever meet aliens. “We already have,” he said. “They’re called Hungarians.”

By this, Fermi meant Hungarian scientists and mathematicians, who outshone the rest of the world in the 1950s. Among them was John von Neumann who,

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