Re:1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
by bonoboTP on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:06AM
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Right, I wonder how much we are, globally speaking, becoming very Anglo-centric in our understanding of history, merely because we use the English language for international communication and therefore it's easier to consume histories and writings produced by Anglos.
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Re:1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:59PM
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Maybe not that much. At my British university (Imperial) the majority of the students at the very least don't look "Anglo" and don't have Anglo names.
When I started my PhD I was greeted with an email with the names of all other PhDs starting at the same year, cc'd. So I saw everyone's names (in Office 360- you can see the names attached to the email addresses) and I think there were two or three recognisably Anglosaxon names in about 80 names.
So I suspect it's more that English is used as a lingua franca for students and researchers from all over the world, than that students and researchers are predominantly native English speakers.
Myself, for example, am not a native English speaker :)