MATHEMATICAL WONDER
FEATS BY HUNGARIAN. BRAIN INTERESTS DOCTORS. LONDON. Jan. 6. Medical faculties in London, New York and Berlin are outbidding one another for the possession of tho head of a man who privately exhibited his mental powers at Claridge's Hotel, London. He is 27 years old, a Hungarian named Olgo, son of a small farmer, and ho is able to work out involved calculations which experienced mathematicians find it difficult to perform on paper. Olgo is unablo to explain tho ability which ho discovered when he was six years old. Psychologists have since failed to find out the reason for tho powers, hence tho doctors' eagerness to examine his skull.
The draft of an agreement, which has been drawn up, requires Olgo to arrange for his skull to bo preserved and sent to the purchasers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20766, 8 January 1931, Page 9
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