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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social

One more thing, using mathematics alone, because access to data is easier my argument still stands. Romania has an excellent track record at IMO, but no Fields medal, no Abel award, a flimsy number of top tier highly cited mathematicians even among expat IMO participants or awardees.

sep 2, 2025, 11:53 am • 1 0

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Andrei Munteanu @andrei-econ.bsky.social

Sure, but Romania is a country of 20 million people with very low educational attainment by most standards. I'm not sure that in expectation, if you randomly draw Fields medal winners, you would expect Romania to have one.

sep 2, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social

Yes, finding an adequate metric is problematic.

sep 2, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view