Being an influential mathematician doesn't really put you high on most people's awareness. But you're misstating the problem. If the title had been "A country

Being an influential mathematician doesn't really put you high on most people's awareness. But you're misstating the problem. If the title had been "A country of which nothing is known but the name Obama", I would still have assumed that it was about a little-known historical nation that happened to share a name with the last US president. It's just a really weird, confusing title.