Russia's Conquering Zeros, The strength of post-Soviet math stems from decades of lonely productivity @ the WSJ...
It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to solve one of the century's hardest problems—the Poincaré Conjecture—it was a Russian mathematician working in Russia who, early in this decade, finally triumphed.
Decades before, in the Soviet Union, math placed a premium on logic and consistency in a culture thatSource: MAKE: Blog RSS Feed
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