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 | | They come from Switzerland, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, and North America.** There is a bit of bias here because the first half of my book deals with events up to 1900, and there is more "diversity" in mathematics nowadays. |
 | | At the Courant Institute conference in May there was a fair sprinkling of Japanese, Chinese, and Indians.*** (Readers of Simon Singh's pop-math bestseller Fermat's Enigma may recall the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture.) India especially has produced some really first-class mathematicians, and my book mentions a couple (Srinivasa Ramanujan and Sarvadaman Chowla) in passing. |
 | | Still, there is no denying that if you write a book about higher mathematical research in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, you are writing about white guys from Europe and her colonies. |
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