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User:Thetootpoem

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esEste usuario tiene el español como lengua materna.
en-1This user can contribute with a basic level of English.



I want to improve the biographies of mathematicians (they deserve big articles, like the ones that singers and athletes are receiving on Wikipedia), but I have a problem: If the mathematician is not from a native English-speaking country, the best sources are in languages like Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, etc... How can I check if I got their content right when I don't know so many languages nor have contacts with people who know these languages and also speak English/Spanish?

A thought: The English Wikipedia is the cornerstone of all other Wikipedias, and if it falls, all others will fall together, and if it prosper, all others will prosper too.

Personal: My philosophy/mathematics/physics heroes are Karl Popper, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Albert Einstein.

I feel that philosophers and physicists get famous much more easily than mathematicians. This is not good. (still much harder than athletes and singers...)

Comment. By the way: I usually read very quickly. It took me approximately four seconds to read what is written in this page above this comment.