It seems to me that most westerners ignore Eastern thinking. My studies here 
at U.N.O. mention nothing about any of the ones you list/
 MB> We should not forget "Srinivasa Ramanujan",  (1887-1920) an
 MB> Englishman  would say "was a mathematician so great that his name
 MB> transcends  jealousies, the one superlatively great mathematician
 MB> whom India has  produced in the last thousand years." A black
 MB> vegetarian Indian from  Kumbakonam, who grew up praying to stone
 MB> deities, whose family  goddess to whom he purported his mathematical
 MB> insights were owed.... My education may be lacking, my memory
 DB> may be failing; my study  of Comp Sci goes back to a minor in 1971,
 DB> but whatever, I don't  recall this guy Mark. Nor do I know that he
 DB> is not Aryan.  They  have been in India since Mohenjadaro;
 DB> the Bhramins have been seen  as praying to stone gods by westerners
 DB> who do not know the great  difference between an Avatar and an
 DB> ignorant's idolatry.  They do  not pray to a stone god anymore
 DB> than you pray to a wooden cross.
 DB> You may still have a good case Mark, but this guy ain't it.
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Marylou Jenkins
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