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From: Kumar, Rudra on 20 May 2010 23:45
This is an interesting topic. But I will not agree that just Indian students are the best in the world. Indian students happen to be hard working making them smart, this is purely down to shere competition.
From: Ostap Bender on 21 May 2010 04:26
On May 21, 12:45 am, "Kumar, Rudra" <guauser+ru...(a)mathforum.org>
wrote:
> This is an interesting topic. But I will not agree that just Indian students are the best in the world. Indian students happen to be hard working making them smart, this is purely down to shere competition.

Well, if we were to judge by the results of the International Math
Olympiads for high school students, Indian students have to work much
harder to catch up to countries with much better performing math
students, especially given that India and China overwhelm the other
countries in population size:

http://imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2009&column=total&order=desc

People's Republic of China 221
Japan 212
Russian Federation 203
Republic of Korea 188
Democratic People's Republic of Korea 183
United States of America 182
Thailand 181
Turkey 177
Germany 171
Belarus 167
Taiwan 165
Italy 165
Romania 163
Ukraine 162
Vietnam 161
Islamic Republic of Iran 161
Brazil 160
Canada 158
United Kingdom 157
Bulgaria 157
Hungary 157
Serbia 153
Australia 151
Peru 144
Rep of Georgia 140
Poland 140
Kazakhstan 136
India 6 130

I mean, Rep of Georgia has a population 250 smaller than that of India
and still has a better mathematics team.
From: Ostap Bender on 21 May 2010 04:28
On May 21, 1:26 am, Ostap Bender <ostap_bender_1...(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
> On May 21, 12:45 am, "Kumar, Rudra" <guauser+ru...(a)mathforum.org>
> wrote:
>
> > This is an interesting topic. But I will not agree that just Indian students are the best in the world. Indian students happen to be hard working making them smart, this is purely down to shere competition.
>
> Well, if we were to judge by the results of the International Math
> Olympiads for high school students, Indian students have to work much
> harder to catch up to countries with much better performing math
> students, especially given that India and China overwhelm the other
> countries in population size:
>
> http://imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2009&column=total&or....
>
> People's Republic of China      221
> Japan   212
> Russian Federation      203
> Republic of Korea       188
> Democratic People's Republic of Korea           183
> United States of America        182
> Thailand         181
> Turkey  177
> Germany 171
> Belarus 167
> Taiwan  165
> Italy   165
> Romania 163
> Ukraine 162
> Vietnam 161
> Islamic Republic of Iran        161
> Brazil   160
> Canada  158
> United Kingdom  157
> Bulgaria        157
> Hungary  157
> Serbia  153
> Australia       151
> Peru    144
> Rep of Georgia  140
> Poland  140
> Kazakhstan       136
> India   6       130
>
> I mean, Rep of Georgia has a population 250 smaller than that of India
> and still has a better mathematics team.

I mean, Rep of Georgia has a population 250 times smaller than that of
India and still has a better mathematics team.
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