Well in reality my dear old friend Albert exaggerated a little, because if there was a genius between us, it was he!
Nevertheless I must admit that once he was a little lost in finding the right equation...
I had gone to visit him in Bern, Switzerland, where he lived at that time and I was keeping him company while he was frantically trying to find something missing in his reasoning
I remember the moment as if it was now. Albert was a bit nervous, so I made him a cup of tea – when you feel lost and you don’t know how to manage, stop for a while and have a cup of tea...it’s a golden rule -, when I came back with the tray I gave a look at the blackboard and suddenly I told him:
“Albert, why don’t you try with a”2” at the place of that “3”?”
I don’t know why,it simply came to my mind...
Albert jumped from his chair, turned off the tea cup and changed the equation on the blackboard.
Then he hugged me and shouted
“Ach so, du bist ein Genie, Violet!”
Dear Albert....I miss him so much, but it was long time ago and this is, of course, another story...