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>Day Brown wrote to Mark Bloss about Race & IQ
 DB> On 01-29-98 Mark Bloss wrote to Frank Masingill... 
 MB>  We should not forget "Srinivasa Ramanujan", (1887-1920) an Englishman 
 MB>  would say "was a mathematician so great that his name transcends 
 MB>  jealousies, the one superlatively great mathematician whom India has 
 MB>  produced in the last thousand years."  A black vegetarian Indian from 
 MB>  Kumbakonam, who grew up praying to stone deities, whose family 
 MB> goddess to whom he purported his mathematical insights were owed.... 
 DB> My education may be lacking, my memory may be failing; my study 
 DB> of Comp Sci goes back to a minor in 1971, but whatever, I don't 
 DB> recall this guy Mark.  Nor do I know that he is not Aryan.  They 
 DB> have been in India since Mohenjadaro; the Bhramins have been seen 
 DB> as praying to stone gods by westerners who do not know the great 
 DB> difference between an Avatar and an ignorant's idolatry.  They do 
 DB> not pray to a stone god anymore than you pray to a wooden cross. 
 DB> 
 DB> You may still have a good case Mark, but this guy ain't it.
  Whether or not you have a different opinion is not relevant, because 
  Ramanujan is 1) easy to look up, and 2) you are not familiar with him.
  
  
  
... It appears you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor.
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