John VanSickle wrote:
> That's because every nation is a minority of the world, and therefore 
> most mathematicians are foreign.

This doesn't mathematically follow unless you assume a sufficiently flat 
distribution of mathematicians. Since intellectuals tend to like hanging 
around their peers, this tends not to happen.

Check out, for example, the number of Chinese Nobel prize winners vs USA 
Nobel prize winners. Not because Chinese aren't smart, but because the 
scientists from all over the world often come to the USA to do their 
thing, even if they're "foreign".  (Or at least used to, a few decades 
ago, before we started thinking stupidity was a virtue.)

> I recall reading somewhere, however, that the great work of math is 
> still in progress.  There remain a large number of unsolved, 
> long-standing problems in math, and some of the frontiers of theoretical 
> physics are presently at a standstill because the necessary math hasn't 
> been developed yet.

Well... maybe. :-) Lots of stuff is hard to calculate, even tho the math 
is, in theory, pretty simple.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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