Language Definition and 601 Threads

Although most people speak English, I am curious as to which language would be most beneficial while I pursue a science/engineering career. I do not plan on staying in the U.S. so I was wondering which language would help me the most. Also, which country/city/nation or whatever you want to use...

My school advises that all majors in math and physics intending on grad school gain at least a reading proficiency of either French, German, or Russian. How important is language proficiency to grad school? Will it affect either my ability to learn or my chances at entering top programs...

as the topic, just want ask what software does that sort of things. thanks

Personally I love the typical British accent (London). Skottish is really cool. And maybe East Coast American. I don't like Australian. Texas is horrible, not at least because it reminds me of Bush.

Not sure if we have discussed it before, but Europe definitely needs one language for more progress to unity. Here is an impression on the progress of that process.

Is an infinite language with an infinite alphabet always recursively enumerable?

Hello everyone, I am a mechanical engineering major and I have to decide which course in foreign language to take because is required at my school. I am between chinese and german, but I want to pick one that can help me in my future career. Any suggestions?

I have run into a problem... The language filter we have been using is out of date and it periodically does not work. I was hoping I could get some help on making a new one. The old one: import java.io.File; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.net.SocketAddress...

I am wondering how the man that invented FORTRAN did so. More precisely : It is not really the language that he invented but more likely a compiler that would understand some syntax that we call "language". So how did he write its compiler? In order to make it work it necessitate a...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923140838.htm ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2008) — After several years of detective work, philologists at the University of Stavanger in Norway have collected a unique collection of texts online. Now they're about to start the most comprehensive...

Hello, I'm a Nuclear Engineering undergrad at Penn State. Right now I'm considering to learn a foreign language so I will be able to communicate to other countries which have a considerable amount of nuclear resources (personnel and infrastructure). I have a few questions in regards to...

Hi All, I am a physicist from Hungary. I was involved in quite a few programming tasks back in the university, especially in the field of Density Functional Theory, which needed complex computations. I used Fortran and later C++, for Object Oriented programming gave quite a few advantages...

how would i get it to solve linear equations and linear systems, especially in the form; y=ax+b my professor and i found out that it likes brackets " [ . . . ] " and double equal signs " == " i know its probably painfully obvious but any input would be tremendous!

Thanks for reading Do people determine rules for gesture interpretation ? Could language comprehension be done via just emotion [leaving out cases of deception]?

I am currently a sophomore in college, studying mathematics and possibly double majoring in physics. So far, I'm thinking of going to grad school in some field (not sure if it's math, physics, or etc). Right now, I'm wondering if I should study any foreign language at college. I'm already...

If t is the term x*y*z of the language for group theory, why is x*y not a subterm of t? isn't (x*y)*z = x*(y*z) = x*y*z, meaning that x*y is a subterm by definition?

Any suggestions on how to cope with foreign languages in journal papers? Say you want to read a proof of a certain theorem. But the ONLY published proof of that theorem is in Russian, and it has never been translated in English. Other than learning Russian, any suggestions on how to learn the...

Like it says. I am studying Mechanical engineering and I would like to get familiar with so programming language. I was thinking of Java or C++. I am leaning more towards the latter. However, I have heard that they are both a little outdated. I am of the opinion that if I learned C++...

Ok well, i was just looking around for someone to give me a few tips or give me a "guide". I really wanted to use programming with physics, to simulate or just to get to know how to apply what i know in physics and see how much i understand it to make applications. I am not a very good...

I'm an economics major. I am trying to decide what foreign language I should take next year. I am already fluent in Spanish, and I would like my language choice to be a nice complement to my major. I'm not really sure what I want to do in terms of a career. I'm studying abroad in Africa...

I'm an economics major. I am trying to decide what foreign language I should take next year. I am already fluent in Spanish, and I would like my language choice to be a nice complement to my major. Any suggestions? Thanks, Rangerrand

In my current undergrad BS program, I need two semesters of any foreign language. I've been looking into graduate programs in math, and quite a few of them seem to require some knowledge of French, German, and/or Russian. How prevalent is this requirement in the United States, and would it be...

What is a good beginning computer language? Also, do projects such as the ones on makezine.com require a proprietary language for their own hardware? Thanks

Hi all. This question has probably been asked before but I couldn't find it so. Over the past year I have dabbled with a few programming languages such as C,C++ and perl. My question is, which one should I really focus on and why? Thanks for any help.

Hi, I'm stuck on "the summit of statistical mechanics" (as Feynman calls it): the definition of the Boltzmann Factor. The probability of measuring the system with energy E is P(E) = 1/Z * e^-E/kT. I've taken courses in QM and can't understand why P(E) does not depend on the ket of the...

I am about to enter college in September and I am choosing my classes now. I am very interested in becoming bilingual and would like to know what language would be useful in this field. I thought about Mandarin Chinese but I can't see a real benefit it could produce. I'm very interested in...

what would be the qualities of an international language? this is part of my essay on languages; i need some ideas... thnks

relative and arbitrary for example "I can take relative to any point I choose. I choose this point here arbitrary" And "relative to that point."

Another group of strong pictures for this contest. Please vote for the picture that best represents our theme, which is on signs. 1. hypatia 2. alex_caps http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6237/signckqx9.png 3. matthyaouw 4. Mech_Engineer 5. ZapperZ...

Does anyone know about ETH Zürich? This university is very good in my mind, especially, in engineering and technology. What is the major teaching language in this university? Is it German? I think German is very difficult to learn.

I am about to learn a second language and was interested in what your opinions were on a good path to take with physics in mind. Initially I thought Latin would be a good option for nearly all sciences. But then I thought about it and realized that, although it may be useful, maybe not as much...

Hey guys I am in the process of learning assembly language on microprocessors and I am progressing slowly.So please if there is anyone, anyone who can recommend something to speed up the process, I am running out of time. I ask for links textbooks or anything that can help. thank you in...

http://www.slate.com/id/2184502/ He is a true Obamenon [(c)2008 Ivan Seeking]. But here's my favorite: Flukey or Spooky? :biggrin:

Problem on regular language! Homework Statement Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Thanks!

*****need help programing in assembly language***** Hi there everyone. I am really new to this assembly language and i don't know how to code this simple programe.. Please help me with this. I would very much appreciate it.. here is the question.. Need to design assembly language...

Hello. I want to find a computer language for doing real-time interactive graphics. I want to be able to operate on each point of an image in real-time. For example I thought it would be interesting to be able to write a program that will perform a Fourier Transform on an image, do some...

Does anyone know what the heck this guy is saying? [Edited by Moonbear: sorry, that link had to go.]

Hi all, As I know, we think by language. So before language appeared, how could human beings think? Thanks

I, as of right now, know two languages. My first language is English (duh) and the other is German, which i am still learning. I am not the greatest German speaker by no means but i can read and speak some German. German is a neat language to speak and write but i feel it won't be a language...

Hello all, I was wondering, since I read in a document that programming is used a lot in physics work, if Perl programming was any use? I don't know much about programming or even computers for that matter all I know is that Perl is mostly a text based programming system and I assume that its...

What is the effect of putting void before main function i mean? void main() { } void main(void) { }

Langauge Extinction a "Crisis"? Does anyone else find this a little rediculous? http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-09-18-languages_N.htm Are they serious? The names of these 56 varieties of bees aren't listed in any biology text anywhere? C'mon. My grandparents speak...

I was reading about how to build a computer by yourself. The final step is installing the operating system. I was wondering, how does the operating system give instructions to the computer? When I write a program in java, for example, I rely on the operating system as a crutch to pass my...

specifically a pure math book? I'm reading this textbook and sometimes it takes me so long to figure out what the theorem or something is actually saying. I can't tell whether parts of it are supposed or are conditions or if they're using some characteristic of another proven part of the...

This may be more appropriate for the metaphysics forum, but since this is my first post, I'll give this area a shot. What is the relationship between music, mathematics and descriptive language? By descriptive language, I mean any language that describes the world as it really is...

A business partner sent me a manual that I need. It was 300 pages of Japanese. :rolleyes: So I used the google language tool to translate a response, that being, wtf is this?, but without the abbreviation, and in Japanese. So I got this: 性交は何をこれであるか。 Returned upon reverse translation...

Anyone care to share their experiences picking up a language 'from scratch' by taking university courses? How many courses do you generally have to take before being able to speak at a moderately competent level, read books in the language, and so on? I'm thinking French or German. Thing is...

Because of all the posts that ask what language to learn first...I was curious in what order did people learn their languages first and if you would like to include also a list of CS fields that you have gotten to know if you would like for example AI, Compgeom,compGfx,numericals,gui etc...

Which programming language to learn? Hi there, I've decided to start teaching myself a programming language and it was recommended to me by two people both in the field I'm getting into (astrophysics) to learn either C or Fortran but preferably C. I was told C rather than C++ because C++ is...

i have a matrix 4x4 like this 1 5 7 3 2 6 8 0 1 4 3 2 0 4 0 5 my teacher asks me to print out 1 2 3 4 each of the digits is from the 1st 2nd 3rd 4th rows it looks very simple, but because i just learned c for two months, i don't know how to code a program, true. could you help me...