Are Asians Smarter?

em... what?

or is it because when both asians and westerner discovers something, the westerner gets credited even though if he discovered it 500 later than the asian guy. (pascal's triangle)

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.