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My theory: Countries that were in the direct sphere of influence of the Soviet Union during the Cold War tended to have very good mathematics departments and mathematics education.
It was academic work that a) was politically safe: there are few social or political implications to a mathematical theorem and thus received little negative state interference and b) mathematics requires little capital. With chalk and blackboard you can go a long way.
The latter was also useful after the fall of the wall, because there was almost no money for expensive equipment such as physicists needed.
After the worst shocks of the fall of the Soviet Union have been absorbed, you see that the departments have grown into full-fledged ‘Computet Science’ institutes, which also because of the money, not only for academia, but also for an IT career training.
What I’ve seen: India is the main supplier for foreign IT people, but the former Eastern Bloc is also very well represented.
From Azerbaijan to Romania, I have worked with many Eastern European nationalities.
Kiev is specifically a hub simply because it is the capital I think. University, a global view of the world, good connections (in peacetime).
[Reactie gewijzigd door Keypunchie op 3 maart 2022 13:26]
