just skimming a poorly translated and poorly formatted english version of K,AN as viewed by his students...

> Perhaps Andrey Nikolaevich's approach to teaching was also influenced by the free postgraduate existence, which he later recalled as his happiest time. At that time, a graduate student was supposed to pass 14 exams in 14 different mathematical sciences. But the exam could be replaced by an independent result in the relevant field. Andrey Nikolaevich said that he never passed a single exam, but instead wrote 14 articles on various topics with new results. "One of the results, concluded Andrey Nikolaevich, "turned out to be incorrect, but I realized this after the exam was completed."

Now, that is the good stuff: Нужны Парижу деньги се ля ви / А рыцари ему нужны тем паче!