Can we at least agree that communism gave us the best mathematics

>refusing the money

why tho

>>3231522
>Colleagues in the US remember his fingernails being unusually long, his eccentricity, and the modesty of his lifestyle. Even though he was well paid, they say his fridge contained little more than milk and bread.

>In 1995, he shocked his peers by returning to the poorly-funded research institute in his native St Petersburg where he had earlier worked, turning down lucrative offers in the US in favour of a tiny salary worth the equivalent of £120 a month.

Plebs will never understand the life of the stoic.

>>3231690
>his fridge contained bread
>storing grains somewhere with high humidity

Do you want mold? Because that's how you get mold.

>>3231695
Non-American detected, keeping your bread in the fridge stalls mold and causes it to stale.

>>3231695
>non-Americaan education

>one Russian solves a conjecture using Rico Flow that was invented by an American
>Communism strong!

>>3231522

This >>3231690, and because the technique he used to solve the conjecture was made by someone else, so he felt he contributed no-more than anyone else, he just put the pieces together.

>>3234045
>a westerner solves something using math that was invented by Indians
>Westerners strong!

>>3231370
It wasn't really communism, consider for a moment France and the Soviet Union, both quite different yet producing some of the best mathematicians/physicist at the time, a big part of this was the general respect for the subjects, lauding them as among the highest of pursuits, this made it so that people weren't forced to learn the subject, they wanted to know it. They also had programs that segregated classes based on interest/ability at a younger age so that the faster students could excel. There was also plenty of extracurricular math opportunities (math circles are common in France/Russia but only recently can be found in the US), early exposure to this kind of problem solving does wonders.

>>3231370
Gave us a lot more as well, of course.

>>3231690
>stoic
Nah that sounds more like a cynic desu. Stoicism is temperance but not full asceticism.

>>3231370
Hey I know that guy.
Wikipedia--->Russian Jews.

>>3235458


How the fuck does being ascetic equate being a cynic?

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>>3234066
>an entire civilization builds off of basic principles discovered/ invented by ancient India to create a massive interdisciplinary study of structure and numbers
>one Russian solves a conjecture using Rico Flow that was invented by an American
>hurr durr same thing right?