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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:04:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:34:11 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com
>(James Nicoll) wrote:
>
>> 
>> My engineer grandfather once mentioned MIT encouraged him to learn 
>> German. That would have been the late 1920s, early 1930s. 
>
>In 1960, my college advisor told me that a math major must
>learn German.  I did well, but not well enough to read math
>papers.

Math papers should be easy because they are mostly equations and all 
you need to understand are phrases like "and therefore by reduction"
and "by the mathod of Langrange we can see" and "which can be easily
proven."
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."