Languages for /sci/

[Anonymous No.12499019]

Besides English, what other languages would you guys recommend learning for academic purposes?

[Anonymous No.12499095]

>>12499019
Latin

[Anonymous No.12499102]

German if you want to read the same exact paper that you could already read in English but you just want to feel smarter doing it.
Mandarin if you want to read a bunch of cribbed shit.
Latin if you want to learn how to summon demons and make pacts with them to gain access to revolutionary theories like F=ma or speciation through natural selection.

[Anonymous No.12499129]

>>12499102
What about Russian?

[Anonymous No.12499146]

>>12499095
Isn't this more relevant for the humanities? Who wants to read outdated scientific theories?

[Anonymous No.12499157]

>>12499019
> Indians can earn 6-digit even they are typical ESLtards.
> Indians are good at java.

[Anonymous No.12499162]

>>12499157
This is old.

[Anonymous No.12499166]

>>12499146
retard lol

[Anonymous No.12499174]

>>12499166
You want to read the original works? Good job wasting your time, faggot. :^)

[Anonymous No.12499175]

>>12499157
>>12499162
What? Why isn't Fortran on there?

[Anonymous No.12499178]

>>12499019
Ancient Greek, unironically.

Latin is also good, but Greek is more important. So if you only have time to learn one of them, stick with Greek.

[Anonymous No.12499182]

>>12499019
Mandarin

[Anonymous No.12499192]

>>12499175
isn't fortran low tier af?

[Anonymous No.12499220]

>>12499178
can I ask why this is?

[Anonymous No.12499221]

>>12499019
German. You can read a lot of important physics and math papers in the original.

[Anonymous No.12499229]

>>12499019
Mandarin or Korean, anyone saying anything else is retarded. Basically look at what countries are pushing out the best research in your field and learn the language

[Anonymous No.12499230]

>>12499019
arabic

[Anonymous No.12499233]

>>12499019
I've heard arabic is a highly logical language or something to that effect

[Anonymous No.12499235]

>>12499230
useless for science
>>12499233
everyone speaks fus7a, there are individual dialects too though, which can be quite different from each other

[Anonymous No.12499240]

>>12499235
fuck I thought you said "highly local language", my bad
anyway arabic isn't any more logical than any other language

[Anonymous No.12499243]

>>12499233
wtf does that even mean? lol

[Anonymous No.12499248]

>>12499240
>>12499243
It's something about its structure or something. Not that I actually know about it, probably heard it from some random youtube video

[Anonymous No.12499249]

>>12499175
Because not everyone is a physicist/mathematician using outdated languages

[Anonymous No.12499261]

>>12499248
as someone who speaks Arabic, the source of your fact is definitely someone who does not
either that or a native looking to brag

[Anonymous No.12499264]

>>12499220
Many scientists have been inspired by the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy (also by ancient Indian philosophy, to be fair, but I'm less familiar with that one), unlike the meme scientists of today who seem to shit on everything that isn't accompanied by ugly graphs and data sets.

Ancient Greek mathematics is also the oldest science known to us (it seems that the notion of a deductive proof originated with Thales of Miletus and it was unknown to Egyptians and Mesopotamians who relied on heuristic arguments in their mathematics) and it can be of some pedagogical utility to study ancient Greek mathematics. It is said that Isaac Newton dismissed Euclid's Elements because most propositions of the first book seemed to him completely "obvious" and not worthy of proof, and thus he devoted himself to the study of Descartes' Geometry instead, but Isaac Barrow (Newton's teacher) reproached him and advised him to study Euclid thoroughly. Newton did so and he acknowledge that he was indebted to Barrow for having made him give Euclid a second chance. Indeed he wrote the Principia using the methods of synthetic geometry favored by the Greeks instead of the more modern analytic geometry of Descartes.

[Anonymous No.12499271]

>>12499248
might as well learn lojban or ithkuil kek

[Anonymous No.12499273]

>>12499271
For me, it's either Linear A or nothing.

[Anonymous No.12499365]

>>12499129
Unironically very useful for a bunch of maths and radio research from the cold war. A lab I worked in had a whole room full of Russian papers from the 70s.

[Anonymous No.12499465]

>>12499233
maybe but standard arabic grammar is so difficult it's near impossible to speak fluently. there are grammar to how numbers are supposed to be gendered, the diacritics for the fuckton of grammatical cases that can be combined together, the sometimes obtuse pronunciation of words as a result of said grammatical diacritics, it's all tiresome and the arabic academia is extremely harsh toward proper grammar.

[Anonymous No.12500127]

>>12499261
it's true, if you know the root of any word you are capable of constructing the verb, noun... etc
e.g.
bread -> خبز
bakery -> مخبز
you see they look similar, this logic applies almost all the time

[Anonymous No.12500151]

>>12499230
>>12499233
I've studied Arabic and Mathematics in college.
Arabic is literally just math. Once you get the sounds down it's a mathematical language. No wonder they developed algebra.

[Anonymous No.12500152]

>>12499019
It depends on the field you're in.

[Anonymous No.12500430]

>>12500151
>Arabic is math

wat? care to explain?

[Anonymous No.12500504]

>>12500430
He will not, that's some muslim crap alike to gematria (a rip-off of isopsephy, which also don't make much sense)