Timeline for What great mathematics are we missing out on because of language barriers?
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| May 21, 2021 at 14:44 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | "Russians" continues to publish a lot in French and German after 1917, many important papers by e.g. Tychonoff are originally published in German and French, e.g. in 1935 Tychonoff publishes 3 papers in Math.Annalen, in German. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 19:07 | comment | added | cheater | the whole point is that lots of people will miss lots of things by being monolingual. When you bring up that there will be a few people who aren't like this, that's you missing the entire point of the question. Please, cease, this is not going to lead anywhere. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 19:06 | comment | added | cheater | "until recently" as in the last couple centuries ... compared to the history of published technical material, which is millennia. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 13:41 | comment | added | paul garrett | @cheater, it is simply not true that "until recently" respected journals only accepted submissions in Latin, etc. The very notion of "journal" did not really have any sense until the 19th century, etc. The seeming "obstacle" in the premise is a "straw man", is my point. That is, "lots of people" will miss "lots of things" by being monolingual and/or semi-literate (and the latter is worse than the former, probably). But not everyone will miss things... The "we" is very heterogeneous. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 13:11 | comment | added | cheater | the original question states things as they are. You may wish upon a star that everyone knows 10 foreign languages, but that will not change the fact that, in reality, there are languages that few people know outside that language group, and that because of this, everyone else misses out on knowledge shared in those languages. The original question asks for examples of such works, not for discussion of whether th phenomenon of language barriers is desirable or can be overcome. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | cheater | is the fact that monolinguality is "novel" the reason why the most respected journals only accepted work in Latin until recently? | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 12:28 | comment | added | paul garrett | @cheater, my point is that some "barriers" of all sorts are self-created, and or self-allowed, and avoidable. Maybe the "small population" is exactly the most serious, dedicated professionals? The true "novelty" in comtemporary attitudes is the (dubious) notion that being monolingual is feasible in a professional scholarly environment. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 11:57 | comment | added | cheater | The question is vague by design to allow people to share things that they think some people might miss out on due to language barriers. There is no reason to nit pick or to bring up the fact that a small population might know a certain language, therefore there's no language barrier to that language for that small population. | |
| S Mar 20, 2018 at 1:34 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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