Hi Dana! Awesome and Fantabulous score! A whooooping 770! Also, I must mention you have a flare for connecting to people with your words.
Kudos...yet again!
I was reading through your analysis of the quality of maths taught in Romania. Good to know that you think so highly of your education system and I have heard good things about them too, but when you refer to "any other country" you make a catastrophic mistake
Granted...Romania might be better than many when it comes to mathematics but beats me even to imagine that she beats the Indian or the Russian mathematicians.
India, a 5000 year old civilation - had the world's first university (University of Nalanda in 700 BC) and to quote Sir Albert Einstein - "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made". India invented the number system and Aryabhatta gave the world the concept of zero. The decimal systems were developed in India in 100 BC, 'pi' was first calculated in India by Budhayana (formulated much later by Pythagoras). The quadratic equations were created by Sridharacharaya in the 11th century. It's true that many of the inventions were enshrouded by much later on but better market-ed "discoveries" by the western counterparts - for example radio is credited to Marconi but the true pioneer was Professor Jagadish Chandra Bose.
I do not see what reasons might make the Indians stop practising high level mathematics and if you assume that they are still at it - the quality can be understood to be extremely high.
Before, I wave a goodbye, it's worthwhile to add that I decided to write this post not to prove your comment wrong but to bring up the intellectual quality of scholars in a country whose people are hardly given true credit for their amazing achievements. A fact that has been continuing for centuries and is probably due to the immense level of humility that is innate in the Indian culture.
All the very best for your future endeavors!
regards
Anirban
