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Out of all the mathematicians ever made Benjamin Pierce fellow in pure mathematics at Harvard,only 4 are africans.And all of them come from central africa.What makes central africans so good at mathematics compared to other africans?The Benjamin Pierce fellowship is given to students for very high quality PHD thesis.
Here are their names in alphabetic order:

Achenjang Niven:Bsc and master in pure mathematics at Stanford and phd in number theory at MIT.Postdoc and Benjamin Pierce fellow at Harvard.He is a cameroonian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igG46G_xBQk

Augustin Banyga:Bsc,master and phd in pure math at Geneva university.Postdoc at the institute for advanced studies at Princeton and Benjamin Pierce fellow at Harvard.He is a hutu from Rwanda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F1WNGO7Y5g

Alex Kampiamba:Bsc ,master and phd(first prize for the best phd in pure math) at Michigan university.Postdoc and Benjamin Pierce fellow at Harvard school of math.He is from Congo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBSitBUnc28&t=37s

Jonathan Mboyo Esole:Bsc in pure math at Brussels university(Top of his class),part III tripos at Cambridge(master in pure math),phd in mathematical physics at Leiden University,postdoc at Stanford and Harvard.He is from Congo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91UG2-JxJK4&t=338s
What makes bantus so good in math?

List of 2025 Harvard BenJamin Pierce fellows:
https://www.math.harvard.edu/peoples-categories/benjamin-peirce-fellows/

Eric Tchetgen(cameroon):Double bachelor in electrical engineering and applied mathematics(Yale),master and phd in statistics at Harvard.One of the greatest statistician in the world.Co-winner of the inaugural 1 million of dollars Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM_gw1JpSKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz3xGDtnXaY

Were you on this platform some years ago under a different name? I remember going head to head with a Bantu supremacist who sounded like you and also had a similar-sounding moniker to yours.

RedboneSmith:
Were you on this platform some years ago under a different name? I remember going head to head with a Bantu supremacist who sounded like you and also had a similar-sounding moniker to yours.

I observed that guys from central africa tend to do better in maths than other africans,where is bantu supremacism in that observation?If I said that east africans tend to produce the best long distance runners in africa,would you call me a supremacist?My observation is facts-based.In all its history,Harvard school of math has given the Benjamin Pierce fellowish to only 4 africans.And all these africans come from central africa.Is that not something quite impressive?Mind you ,the fellowship is only given to very top students.Case in point,one the most famous Benjamin Pierce fellow is the british mathematician Andrew Wiles(FRS) who proved Fermat last theorem,one of the most difficult problems in mathematics.He won the Abel prize(the highest prize in mathematics ) for that.If you have any data that invalidates my observation,feel free to post it.I dont know why are you talking about somebody you interacted with some years ago?How is that relevant to my topic?

A very famous Benjamin Pierce fellow:
Sir Andrew Wiles(FRS):He proved Fermat last theorem,one of the most difficult problems in mathematics.He was awarded the Abel prize for that achievement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1mgEBx1nQ