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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:06PM (#445807)

    Lowly book-writing Russians knowing more math than most Americans of the same age. Imagine that!

    Tolstoy was of nobility with independent wealth, and Dosty was a city intellectual, though often suffering financial difficulty, and both were the preeminent writers in their own lifetime.