A curious thing about programming is that it became prominent when English dominated academia (and computer science was extremely American.) Compare this to, fo

A curious thing about programming is that it became prominent when English dominated academia (and computer science was extremely American.) Compare this to, for example, mathematics where: - some words are loaned from another language like Eigenvector or group (sort of—I think it came from the French groupe). Also eg a blackboard-bold Z (for Zahlen) or Q (for quoziente) for integers or rationals - other words are taken from the native language (eg rational or probability or field extension) though they may derive from Greek or Latin and have cognates in other languages. - some symbols are quite universal and used in every language (eg the forall or exists or implies symbols) - I don’t know whether letters that are typically used for things are the same (eg I don’t know why density is often rho. Is it referring to a word in a different language) - the proofs are written in the native language and often that part matters a lot. - so much stuff is named after people so words don’t need to be translated (eg noetherian domains or Cauchy–Schwarz) - I wonder if some theorems get different names? (I assume in China they don’t call it Chinese remainder theorem)