Mathematics
Influx of ex-Soviet mathematicians changed mathematics in U.S.
Published 8 February, 2012One of the little-noticed effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 was the way in which math is studied and taught in the United States; Soviet mathematicians who came to the United States reduced the role of American mathematicians in certain specialties, and in some specialties the likelihood of a competing American mathematician producing a top research paper has declined
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and these scholars’ differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new research by University of Notre Dame economist Kirk Doran and George Borjas from Harvard University...
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