Can Pakistan expect to get its own Stephen Hawking? | Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy | TEDxUCP

Pakistan has produced good cricketers, squash players, fighter pilots, soldiers, musicians, artists, poets, writers, and doctors. And yet, totally absent are mathematicians. Dr. Pervez explains this damning intellectual poverty and solutions to overcome this problem. Recipient Baker Award for Electronics, Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics; authored in 1990 “Islam and Science – Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality”, now in 7 languages; in 2003 awarded UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for popularization of science; also in 2003 invited to the Pugwash Council; sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; received Joseph A. Burton Award from American Physical Society (2011) and Jean Mayer Award (2011) from Tufts University; HEC-approved supervisor. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx