From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!cw Newsgroups: net.math Title: Travelling Bees, John von Neumann, and Hilbert Article-I.D.: eagle.456 Posted: Mon Aug 9 15:14:59 1982 Received: Tue Aug 10 03:39:29 1982 References: esquire.380 A recent article tells the story about the famous mathematician who solved the travelling bee problem by instantaneously summing the infinite series in his head. The article claims the hero of the story was John von Neumann; I had always heard it was David Hilbert (who was much older). Does anyone have documentation or is this another piece of mathematical apocrypha? Charles