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As heard from Elsa Fisman at the begining of 1990s: At 1960s, many mathematicians in Latin America were versatile in Russian. The reason for that was not the special love for the Russian culture in that region but a purely economical one: generally, math libraries and inividuals were not able to afford books published in the West, while at the same time they found plenty of superb books in Russian for a fraction of price of their Western counterparts. As heard from Dmitry Leites at 2004: In 1986, Prof. Jan-Erik Roos told, in identical words, the reason why most of the Swedish mathematicians can read Russian mathematical books. |