Answer by Noam D. Elkies for What great mathematics are we missing out on...
Not sure if this quite fits the criteria, but . . .The Ramanujan-Nagell equation was introduced in 1913 by Ramanujan in the J. Indian Math. Soc. (Vol.5):Question 464: $2^n - 7$ is a perfect square for...
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The "we" in the question/premise is not homogeneous. E.g., mathematicians of my age or even a bit younger in the U.S. would have been required to demonstrate some nominal reading proficiency in French...
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Reviel Netz, a scholar who has done work on the Archimedes Palimpsest, states in The Archimedes Codex that too few scholars read [ancient] Arabic.He makes a suggestion that there may be more...
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There is a paper in French published in the last 10 years that I read in detail, and I subsequently wrote a paper in which ideas found in this paper played a significant part. There are several...
View ArticleAnswer by Gerhard Paseman for What great mathematics are we missing out on...
I imagine the questions are more suitable for linguistics than for mathematics. At the core of them is the ability (or lack thereof) to express "things" to an appropriate degree of subtlety or...
View ArticleAnswer by John Stillwell for What great mathematics are we missing out on...
Addressing just the primary question, I think there are clear exampleswhere English-speaking mathematicians have been slow to catch up withdevelopments well-known to German or Russian speakers. One I...
View ArticleAnswer by Felipe Voloch for What great mathematics are we missing out on...
I think this question is based on an incorrect premise. In my experience (limited to European languages), it is relatively easy to learn enough of a language to read mathematics in it. Certainly much...
View ArticleWhat great mathematics are we missing out on because of language barriers?
Primary question: What great mathematics are we missing out on because of language barriers?Please post interesting results, pursuits, and branches in mathematics that have not been translated to...
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