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A language carries its philosophy inside the words. Not all philosophical concept can be easily translated in other language. Take a Hindi/Sanskrit word "Aatma/Ātman" for example, it is translated into english as "soul". But it is wrong translation as plant, animal don't have "soul", while even bacteria have "Aatma/Ātman". If Sankrit is lost then the concept of "Ātman" will also be lost.
why not write in a language that has survived more than 10000 years?
Title should be "Foreign Student Seen 'Innovating' More Than Domestic Ones".
This number is vastly exaggerated. Porus was small king of a minor principality( modern day equivalent of a district). References: Ancient India : By R C Majumdar, Wonder That Was India : By A.L.Basham. I have only hard copy of these books. I don't know if e-book is available or not.
I may or may not have direct experience with this but I can comment on this part: "I would be in competition with others who've been practicing their trade for many years. It feels as if it's too late." You will be pleasantly surprised how motivated learning of one month triumphs over years of experience of people who are just getting along with the job. If you have passion for any skill then you are already ahead of most people. So " Efforts taken at this point to turn things around would be futile" is wrong unless its half-hearted effort. I don't know about going back to school but I can definitely say: Full-hearted "efforts taken at this point" not be futile "for picking up a new skill" unless the skill is physically demanding.
These are looking promising:
William Chueh: Pulling hydrogen out of water with the help of concentrated sunlight and an inexpensive material
Prashant Jain: Tuning nanocrystals to make tinier, more efficient switches for optical computing and solar panels
Shannon Miller: Making engines super-efficient by getting them to run at extremely high pressures
Bozhi Tian: Artificial tissue that can monitor and improve health down to the level of individual cells
Zheng Wang: Slowing light to help chips cope with optical data
I found different answer: beta = -134369656/464781 = -289.10316041318384 gamma or delta = 25151792561/19056021 = 1319.8869040394109 phi = 155732362/154927 = 1005.1983321177071 mu = 180458411/464781 = 388.2654648103085
I don't have courage to verify the solution for this abomination of numbers.