Educating the world…

Last Friday I reviewed the film The Man Who Knew Infinity about English mathematician Hardy’s “discovery” of the great Indian number theory genius Ramanujan. The movie is based on the book with the same title by Robert Kanigel. I read Hardy’s A Mathematician’s Apology decades ago, so the release of the film stirred some old memories, including some about importing scientists. The U.S. does it all the time; so do more industrialized countries in the E.U.; the U.K. does it to all the Commonweal...