So the Indians conquered Silicon Valley computernotice

Inventors zero, the Indians noted for his mathematical skills and abstract thinking. Nadella is another example of triumph.

. Vinod Dham created the Pentium processor, Sabeer Bhatia of Hotmail's father, Vinod Khosla founded Sun Microsystems and Padmasree Warrior: - (LD / AGENCIES) The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, other Indian engineers who have succeeded in the U.S. joins occupies one of the highest positions of Cisco.

They are best known cases, but in Silicon Valley a large number of Indians are breaking computer that will work successfully.

According to a study by the universities of Duke, Berkeley and Stanford, Indian entrepreneurs created 32% of the companies founded by immigrants in Silicon Valley between 2006 and 2012, more than the Chinese, British, Japanese and Canadians together.

It was not always so: in the 40s and 50s, the Indians occupied lower positions in the hierarchy of technology companies. But in the 70s and 80s began to arrive in America graduates of the prestigious centers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), created from 1950 and subsequently driven by the first Indian president, Jawaharlal Nehru.

The intention was to minimize Nehru Indian dependence on technology and science in Western countries, especially the United States, according to the historian Ramachandra Guha.

But engineers and computer scientists of IIT fleeing an impoverished India with few economic opportunities and the U.S. was a country where they could Dorado deploy their knowledge and commercial skills.

And progressed: it is estimated that one in six Silicon Valley startups were created by Indians and 30,000 IIT graduates working in the United States, according to Patrick French in his book India: A portrait. Bill Gates and the U.S. Congress have recognized the IIT for his "contribution to innovation in the United States."

Admission tests in one of these 16 centers is one of the most difficult in the world with one million students to 10,000 seats, which means that only 1% gets a job. This means nine times more people per square in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

But the romance of the Indians with numbers preceded modern technological schools with the invention of the zero-nothing, a very Indian concept-and the metric system, due to the long mathematical tradition in China.

Some experts believe that the capacity for abstraction of the Indians is due to Hinduism, the religion practiced by the 80% of people in the country, and its symbolic character that forces the conceptual thinking.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Indian mathematician Ramanujan surprised the world by their ability with numbers despite having no educational training and developing his solo work in southern India without contact with other scientists. When was "discovered", Ramanujan was invited to study at Cambridge, where he was considered a genius and today is recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

Computer and Indian engineers have not only contributed to innovation in foreign soil, but their work is one of the main exports of the Asian giant.

Indian industry information technology began in the late 80s, and the effect named 2000 as the century ended up boosting a sector is now estimated to represent 7.5% of the Asian country's GDP and 25% exports.

Despite the glorious past of Indian IT, experts warn that the quality of technical education is declining.

A report by the Indian consulting Knowledgefaber argues that the 356,000 engineers who graduated in India in 2012 only 45% were able to work in an Indian company in the technology sector.

Just 4.5% of all graduates, or one in 20, had the qualifications to work in international companies such as Google, Yahoo or Microsoft.

Narayana Murthy, cofounder of Infosys, one of the largest Indian companies in information technology, said that even new students in IIT are "inferior".

For now, Indian engineers in Silicon Valley continue succeeding and Nadella Microsoft maybe in front of the staff of the multinational start playing cricket, the favorite sport of the CEO.