Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993

Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:34:11 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com
(James Nicoll) wrote:
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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

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