I remember a little story from the 70s or 80s about the different approaches taken in America and the USSR toward major engineering challenges:
In America, they buy or build a $1 billion supercomputer and hire 5 engineers/programmers.
In the USSR, they take an old, eight-story Tsarist-era building in Moscow—with a view of the Neva—and fill it with 1,000 mathematicians armed with slide rules, chalkboards, and chalk.
In America, they buy or build a $1 billion supercomputer and hire 5 engineers/programmers.
In the USSR, they take an old, eight-story Tsarist-era building in Moscow—with a view of the Neva—and fill it with 1,000 mathematicians armed with slide rules, chalkboards, and chalk.
The result is the same.