Are Asians Smarter?

And why is that, may I ask?
If a mathematician find an interesting property, the mathematician writes it down. But if he or others can't use it to anything practical, then it's left alone and rottens: The asian guy found an interesting property, but couldn't find any use of it. Would I be scolded if I say that he wasn't smart enough to find one?


FYI: The binomial coefficient was known to Greek mathematicians 1000 years before that though. (and 700 for Hindi) As probability was not invented at that time, they didn't have/find a use for it. Same goes for everyone before Pascal.

You can't say that he wasn't smart enough to find an answer per se. Maybe he had been working on it and happened to not live long enough to find a use for it. Who's to say that he DIDN'T find a usefor it and that he just didn't have time to publish it all? For all we know, he DID find a use for it and he hid it in some mountain cave so no one would find it and use it for some random purpose (unlikely, but this is all speculation and guessing for the most part). We can only guess until we get a time machine and ask him what the hell he was thinking about.

All those mathematicians/scientists must have had some sort of motivation/ previous work to go off of. We can't tell if the Asian guy (i think he's named Yang Hui), given the same resorces of Pascal, could have done just the same as Pascal. All we know is he found something before someone else, but didn't get his name on it.

From this i say we are all capable of doing great things, it's just a matter of how motivated we are and how much support and such we have behind us. From what i see, people can be motivated in a situation that is utter crap OR a situation that is incredibly high in support. Hell, I've seen it happen. People can choose whether or not they want to be "smart", but it's not all black and white. There are other factors that can affect the motivation of certain people like the group they hang out with, their racial sterotypes, etc.