China and India are both stereotyped as being good at math but is that true? And how do they stack up against each other? How much contributions have each made to mathematics? Update: my opinion is that when it comes to math research, both equally suck because there is little contribution to pure math from each group despite the multiple billions of people in these groups. The reason I think is a cultural overemphasis on money and success.
There was no Chinese Ramanujan
Is he the only Indian with math knowledge? I always see him and invention of “0” thrown around to save Indians
Many Indians are not aware of enough of their own ancient math achievements. The invention of zero was no big deal: the Greeks built much of geometry and developed number theory without it. The ancient Indians did do great work in trigonometry, a bit in geometry, and also were the first to discover the Maclaurin Series.
More like how is India at gang raping and China at animal cruelty. And how are they both at polluting their neighborhoods and the planet
Look another stereotypical idiot, why stop with just india and china, look at western pedophiles
Jesus lmao relax
Chinese are way above indians at math. Just look at stem phd programs at top university. Chinese outnumber indians 10:1. Indians are def hard worker but I put French, Chinese, Israelis, Eastern Europeans, Russians all above Indians
well it is the opportunity. Chinese can afford to come to west for studies Indians not that rich yet to afford. So the focus is more on jobs than research. you have to look at overseas study forums to understand this. As the country becomes rich and powerful so will the research. For now Chinese yes and others but wait for sometime and its just a cycle
That and also China encourages their brightest ones to go for US phd and then hopefully come back and elevate their own system, they even have state sponsored scholarship, English education courses to inspire them to go for US phd. India cannot even think about doing that, being a relatively poor country, the resentment that the govt. would get from the public for even incentivising students for a US phd would be fatal, let alone any monetary scholarship for that. Also, the internal Indian university system does not like to think of itself as being inferior to the west.
More like how is germany at murdering 6 million jews and Americans at invading a country on false WMD charges. Depends on who you hate.
What a non sequitur. Get help.
Being good at math != contributions to math Most of the people I’ve known who are good at math are Asian. Most of the people I’m aware of who win Fields Medals or, say, create calculus tend to be white dudes (including Jewish). Fully cognizant the Fields Medal may have selection bias etc. etc. but there are my thoughts. Additionally, I’m a brown dude so I don’t have a dog in this fight.
Bc those committees are sometimes biased
You don’t win anything until you are likely 30 years into a field. Take a while for people to become the leader of any field so maybe another 20-30 years we will see a difference if the current school population is an indicator.
It really depends on the parents more than ethnicity or culture.
Yes, it really depends on the parents. I train my daughter to do math at 3 years old. And she can solve 10 addition and subtraction (within 20) in 30 seconds now. This is her daily task before she can go out to play. And she loves doing math, it becomes her habit now. Now, she will ask to do math problems for fun.
Indianshahahahahahahahahahaha
I have noticed that Chinese researchers are starting to have some results in pure math, which is awesome. That said, Indian researchers are already well established throughout the world in academia, so at least I personally know of more top Indian researchers than top Chinese researchers. But that could just be the field I happened to study. (BTW I’m not counting Terence Tao.)
Indian education of math was pretty bad a couple of decades back so Indians suck at it. Memorization over understanding what's happening. Attended one lecture in grad school in the US and it was so much better.
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Selection bias. Most people who come from those countries studied in the best engineering schools. By your logic Nigerians are best doctors
Nah, Indian and Chinese doctors are far better than Nigerians