Foreign languages requirement

>>8225794
Besides names, know what Eigen, Freiheitssatz, Nullstellensatz, Verschiebung, and Hauptvermutung mean. Führerdiskriminantenproduktformel if you are going into algebra. (Disclaimer: Has absolutely nothing to do with Hitler. Totally.)

>>8225794
You need to know 2~3 foreign languages so if your German is nonexistent, you better have good French and Russian.

>>8225794

Hi OP. I don't know how much you need to know, but here are some links to multilingual technical dictionaries once you do start studying.

general

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/164553/dictionaries-and-resources-for-translation-of-mathematical-terminology

german (from above link)

http://mathdict.chitanka.info/en/de-en/

>>8225794
>Mathematics
You're practicing capitalizing Nouns, I suppose?

well youre gonna be a doctor and theres a lot of hispanics in the US entonces debes de saber como decir "soy un pinche gringo"

>>8225794
To enter any foreign university you usually need a B2 level in their languages.

>>8225794
None. I'm currently doing a doctorate in math in germany and there's no formal requirement to know German.

>>8226469
of course it probably varies from institution to institution

>>8225794
Pretty sure most master/PhD courses are in English

Is it enough for me to might as well double major in Mathematics and German?

>Trying to learn dying languages
>English and Mandarin are the only relevant languages internationally, especially in business
Lol Americans...

>>8227288
Might as well.

>>8227288
You can always self-study German if you have the discipline as I suspect you can get in with far less than a degree's worth. Though if you're dead set on it, why not unless it makes your tuition prohibitively expensive or something.

>>8225794
>>8225827

I read about a PhD program in mathematics at a local university in an English speaking country, once. According to the page, students at this particular program are expected to be highly literate (if not 'fluent' as-such) in at least one relevant foreign language (e.g. French, German, Russian, or on the outside Italian or you could maybe even get away with Spanish depending on exactly what you're doing) such that they could actually write academic papers, read productively, and give useful talks in said language, in order to complete a PhD.

Of course, highly educated English speakers are liable to know smatterings of multiple languages by dint of loanwords alone, even if they could barely hold a conversation in them. The point of the above seems to me to be to finally weed out the monolinguals once and for all, and train people who can find information for themselves (research) and hold meaningful dialogue in multiple languages. Personally, I don't see an imperative need to be near-fluent in more than two different languages, but then who the hell am I. You can still go through an article and pick out most of what is going on (in the third language, say) without being fluent.

t. lowly bachelor/graduate.