>>13163376Storytime
I've had one math professor who was unexceptional during my undergrad.
He was really old but he's brain was like teenagers, quicker than any students in class.
He never had any notes or prepared presentations, and always improvised lectures on the current topic.
It was great and felt much more natural, as during his improvisation he was going through all the train of thoughts on a topic which made the explanations more full with lots of additional notes.
I think it was my only time when I actually met a real genius, and I am quite sure that if he didn't live in my shithole country he would have been world class mathematics(also when he was a kid he won main national mathematics competitions) . Anyway he was an expert on anything Banach related as he was a student of one of main Banachs students.
He also got proposals to work on tokyo university after he published some of his work, but after few trips he wasn't really interested because he was too old for that big of environment change and he didn't want to leave his family.
