• Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    The Russians never invent anything

    Literally the most prominent ethnicity of a country that was first to get into space.

    Also, as a person with a math background, hearing that somebody says that is just funny to me in general (albeit, I am considering the usage of the word ‘invent’ as ‘invent or discover’ here). Like, have these people not heard of, for example, this obscure field of contemporary math called ‘probability theory’, the axiomatisation of which was done by Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, a Russian Soviet mathematician? I guess ideas such as ‘measure’ are too big for their thinking stoves.