reminds me of a well-known story, told to me some years back at cornell: richard feynman was set to deliver a series of lectures in brazil, and he spent a good deal of time learning spanish in preparation; that was until a visting professor from brazil told him he might want to try portuguese instead

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Khudyakov Alexey <alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com> wrote:
В сообщении от Среда 30 сентября 2009 22:37:52 вы написали:
> Khudyakov Alexey wrote:
> > В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 edgar@ymonad.com написал:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo,
> >>  Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that
> >> can attract physicists. Anyone has some suggestions? (Will be a seminar
> >> about the use of Haskell to substitute C or Fortran
> >> in a lot of tasks, and how it can be used in some problems instead of
> >> Matlab, Mathematica, etc.)
> >
> > What area of physics? They all face somewhat different problems from
> > computation.
> >
> > Could you publish your slides from seminar (if any) and even if they are
> > in Spanish (nothing is impossible for man with a dictionary)
>
> And what if they're in Portuguese? ;)
>
Nothing is impossible for a man with another dictionary then. (Portuguese-
Russian if you don't mind :)
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