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Where do the best mathematicians come from?

2 thoughts on “Where do the best mathematicians come from?”

  1. Jon says:

    From your phrasing, “Americans think,” it sounds like you dispute that “the best scientists come from their best universities”? But your statistics support that statement. What is your position?

  2. There is probably a nonlinear recursive process at work: because the best people go to the USA, the best people want to go to the USA (to be with the other smart people).