On Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:11:22 AM UTC-7, Osher wrote:
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> 1) "Quantum operations: technical or fundamental challenge," Bogdan Mielnik, Cinvestav (Mexican research equivalent of University of California or University of Texas, for example), Mexico, arXiv:1305.3664v1 [quant-ph] 16 May 2013.
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Both Brazil (which has even more pioneering work than Mexico) and Mexico (which latter is still not one of the best Inventive-Creative research nations in Physics and Math as reflected by ArXiv papers, although Brazil is) should not be taken as indicative of Latino nations' Public performance in Physics and Mathematics, any more than the U.K. (one of the most Inventive/Creative nations in these fields) has a very Inventive-Creative Public in these fields. The Inventivess/Creativity tends to be quite rare in most nations, regardless of what a few arXiv researchers or even sci.physics or other usenet researchers produce. Apparently there is a big gulf between the Public (vast Majority of the Public, anyway), which tends to be employed in "boring" fields of repetitive type unrelated to direct Physics-Mathematics Inventive-Creative research, and the few pioneers in Physics or Mathematics (or for that matter Astrophysics, Biophysics, etc.) research.
Osher Doctorow