comments on translating... 19:33 Feb 8, 2010
In general it is better to do a close, valid translation than a loose translation and say "they are all the same"...courses called "numerical computation" and "numerical analysis" may teach exactly the same thing, but that is not the point. A course called "automotive maintenance" teaches the same thing as a course called "what you need to know to repair your car" but we would not use the same words to translate. Just as "tahlil" and "mohasebat" are not interchangeable in Persian, "computation" and "analysis" are not interchangeable in English. |