This makes no sense.<p>I have an American degree and I&#x27;ve heard the phrase &quot;Fourier transform&quot; before, but I couldn&#x27;t have possibly told you anything about it until I googled it just now. I wouldn&#x27;t have expected any random Chinese academic to know either, no matter how good their institution was. I write software in a variety of languages every day at my full-time job, and while I&#x27;ve seen MATLAB code and could certainly teach myself to write it, I wouldn&#x27;t bother if I could just have somebody else do it. Why would you expect some arbitrary group of Chinese scholars to share very specific skills and knowledge? If you gathered up a gaggle of researchers from anywhere else, you&#x27;d have to get pretty lucky to land a group where everybody was familiar with both one specific area of mathematics and one specific programming language.