I hate it when you get scooped by someone 20 years ago
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Had a C+++ guru tell me he wanted his son to take German in HS and Russian in college for this exact reason. He told me this 20 years ago. I'm a math retard but I felt smarter just knowing this.
I think that was out of date even twenty years ago. One of my college professors (theoretical physics) learned German to read th phys papers from the 1910s-1940s but that hasn’t been necessary since the 1970s.
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Similarly in the 1980s and 1990s it was probably an advantage in some fields of math to read Russian, because of all the papers that you could suddenly access after the colapse of the Soviet Union. But by ~2000 all the good ones had been translated.
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Yes but I possess no special skill other than I'm a fountain of useless information. So I get points for that.
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