On 04-Nov-08 11:27, Invisible wrote:
> 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?

Once someone remarked that in French all laws are names after the first 
French person to have discovered the law. Sometimes decades after it was 
discovered in the rest of the world. (If you think that is silly, think 
about things like Victoria Falls).

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