scott wrote:
>> Is there any specific reason why all great mathematicians were foreign?
> 
> Because 99% of the people in the world are foreign for you?

Mmm. Yes, that must be it...

> I can think of Newton, Babbage, Turing and Darwin off the top of my head 
> as very famous British scientists/mathematicians, I am sure there are 
> many many more.

Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or 
"Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and 
Hooke's law, would it?

At least at college we had somebody to tell us that "Euler" is 
pronounced /ˈɔɪlɚ/. When you read a book and you come across something 
like "Gödel", it's not trivial to figure out how the hell you actually 
proncounce that...

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