RE: Two people of Indian descent win the Fields Medal in consecutive years
August 9, 2018 at 6:10 am
(August 9, 2018 at 1:29 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(August 7, 2018 at 8:44 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: The 2018 Fields Medal was awarded a few days ago.
Akshay Venkatesh, who was born in India and moved to Australia at the age of 2, was one of the recipients. In 2014, Manjul Bhargava, a Canadian of Indian descent, was awarded the Fields Medal. I hereby retract anything I may have said about the intellectual inferiority of Indians. However, I will note that neither of these mathematicians were educated in India; that seems to be key.
Another country that has had 2 recipients in consecutive years is Iran. They look like another force to be reckoned with.
Repeat after me:
Values of extreme outliers samples do not provide pursuasive indications of the likely average of large populations.
When you have a billion people, statistical anomalies start working pretty strongly in your favor.
