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Re:A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics by pflats on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:10AM (#8996570)
>Usually good books travel from English speaking world to other languages as translations.

How do you know that?

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Re:A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics by kryptiskt on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:47AM (#8996732)
There are some numbers for this in David Bellos "Is that a fish in your ear?"[1], chapter 19.

An UNESCO study of translations between Swedish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, French, German and English over a decade showed that 104,000 of the 132,000 translations made between all those languages were translations from English.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/That-Fish-Your-Ear-Translation/dp/0865...

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