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Re:Understanding Quaternions by ModernMech on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:25PM (#18266003)
> Nobody is going to learn French in order to read about Lagrange multipliers from Lagrange's original papers.

You'd think, but I had a professor in physics who learned German just so he could read Boltzmann's original works.

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Re:Understanding Quaternions by twtw on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:51PM (#18266083)
It used to be common in hard sciences and mathematics for English-speaking doctoral candidates to be required to show some aptitude for German or Russian. Maybe still is, dunno.
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Re:Understanding Quaternions by joeberon on Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:16AM (#18267141)
It’s definitely not
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Re:Understanding Quaternions by dboreham on Saturday October 20, 2018 @09:15PM (#18266313)
I believe German was required in order to study Chemistry back in the day.
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Re:Understanding Quaternions by hprotagonist on Saturday October 20, 2018 @10:40PM (#18266492)
it had to be. The bulk of the literature wasn’t in english.

it is now..but it’s still good to know for reviewing the older work.

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Re:Understanding Quaternions by paulgrant999 on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:49PM (#18271574)
in fact this is the primary reasons why I want to learn French, Russian, German ;)

reading the masters, is never a waste.

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