The Offshore Equation

Eastern Europe, Russia, and former Soviet republics are home to many of the world's top mathematicians. "If I need complex logistics algorithms, absolutely I go to Eastern Europe and Russia," says Michael Treacy, a former professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, who notes that in those countries "mathematicians are treated like all-stars, while there's not one in 100 Americans who could even name a single mathematician."

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